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Fedora 31 FEDORA-2019-e99ebf23c8 Moderate Grub2 Regression Fix

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolved concealed-menu issues and corrected flaws in grub2 for Fedora 31 to bolster defenses against identified vulnerabilities.
Fix a grub hidden-menu regression and a bug in blscfg variable expansion ---- Security fix for CVE-2019-14865

Summary

The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and

customizable bootloader with modular architecture. It supports a rich

variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures and

hardware devices.

Fix a grub hidden-menu regression and a bug in blscfg variable expansion ----Security fix for CVE-2019-14865

* Wed Nov 27 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-103

- blscfg: add a space char when appending fields for variable expansion

- grub.d: Fix boot_indeterminate getting set on boot_success=0 boot

* Tue Nov 26 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-102

- grub-set-bootflag: Write new env to tmpfile and then rename (hdegoede)

Resolves: CVE-2019-14865

Resolves: rhbz#1776580

* Wed Oct 16 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-101

- 99-grub-mkconfig: Also disable BLS usage for Xen Dom0 hosts

Resolves: rhbz#1761799

- blscfg: Fix typo for gfxpayload variable name

Resolves: rhbz#1706489

[ 1 ] Bug #1764925 - CVE-2019-14865 grub2: grub2-set-bootflag utility causes grubenv corruption rendering the system non-bootable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764925

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 2.02
Release: 103.fc31
Summary: Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more

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