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Fedora 34: 2021-cab258a413 Moderate: Shim Bootloader Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Shim 15.4 upgrade in Fedora 34 bolsters system security by introducing additional validation protocols and enabling revocation capabilities. Protect your setup now!
- Update to shim 15.4 - Support for revocations via the ".sbat" section and SBAT EFI variable - A new unit test framework and a bunch of unit tests - No external gnu-efi depende...

Summary

Initial UEFI bootloader that handles chaining to a trusted full bootloader

under secure boot environments. This package contains the version signed by

the UEFI signing service.

- Update to shim 15.4 - Support for revocations via the ".sbat" section and

SBAT EFI variable - A new unit test framework and a bunch of unit tests - No

external gnu-efi dependency - Better CI Resolves: CVE-2020-14372 Resolves:

CVE-2020-25632 Resolves: CVE-2020-25647 Resolves: CVE-2020-27749 Resolves:

CVE-2020-27779 Resolves: CVE-2021-20225 Resolves: CVE-2021-20233 - Mark

signed shim packages as protected in dnf. Resolves: rhbz#1874541 - Conflict

with older fwupd, but don't require it. Resolves: rhbz#1877751

* Wed Apr 21 2021 Javier Martinez Canillas - 15.4-4

- Fix handling of ignore_db and user_insecure_mode (pjones)

- Fix booting on pre-UEFI Macs (pjones)

- Fix mok variable storage allocation region (glin)

Resolves: rhbz#1948432

- Fix the package version in the .sbat data (pjones)

* Tue Apr 6 2021 Peter Jones - 15.4-3

- Mark signed shim packages as protected in dnf.

Resolves: rhbz#1874541

- Conflict with older fwupd, but don't require it.

Resolves: rhbz#1877751

* Tue Apr 6 2021 Peter Jones - 15.4-2

- Update to shim 15.4

- Support for revocations via the ".sbat" section and SBAT EFI variable

- A new unit test framework and a bunch of unit tests

- No external gnu-efi dependency

- Better CI

Resolves: CVE-2020-14372

Resolves: CVE-2020-25632

Resolves: CVE-2020-25647

Resolves: CVE-2020-27749

Resolves: CVE-2020-27779

Resolves: CVE-2021-20225

Resolves: CVE-2021-20233

[ 1 ] Bug #1592148 - pxeboot shim crash using newer edk2 firmware

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592148

[ 2 ] Bug #1651016 - kexec/kdump kernel fails to load with EFI secure boot enabled

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1651016

[ 3 ] Bug #1874541 - Please mark shim packages as protected packages with DNF

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1874541

[ 4 ] Bug #1877751 - fwupd replacing dbxtool.x86_64 8-13.fc33

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877751

[ 5 ] Bug #1938630 - include new bootloaders on Fedora 34 install media so UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems can boot from them

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1938630

[ 6 ] Bug #1948432 - efi: Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor for 0x000000003a572000

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948432

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-cab258a413' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 15.4
Release: 4
Summary: First-stage UEFI bootloader

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