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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2022-f86e203baf Critical Font Issues Fix

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2022
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Essential Debian patch resolves display problems in GRUB2 linked to CVE risks. Fortify system integrity and performance.
- put the font back in /boot for now Yes, this bloats size by a couple meg

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.

- put the font back in /boot for now Yes, this bloats size by a couple meg.

Hopefully this won't cause problems for anyone and everyone can be okay with

this CVE fix update. ---- - Adjust the way we provide unicode.pf2 for post-CVE

lockdown policy ---- Two font-related CVE updates (CVE-2022-2601 and

CVE-2022-3775). For more information, see [upstream's

disclosure]()

or the patches themselves.

* Wed Nov 23 2022 Robbie Harwood - 2.06-57

- Temporarily restore the font because everything is pain

* Tue Nov 22 2022 Robbie Harwood - 2.06-56

- Bundle unicode.pf2 with images

- Resolves: #2143725

- Resolves: #2144113

* Tue Nov 15 2022 Robbie Harwood - 2.06-55

- Font fixes (CVE-2022-2601 batch)

[ 1 ] Bug #2143725 - 2.06-55.fc36 secure boot problem (non-latin1 characters broken)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143725

[ 2 ] Bug #2144113 - Latest grub2 breaks gfxterm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144113

[ 3 ] Bug #2146545 - Latest grub2 build drops unicode.pf2 , which breaks multiple critical image composes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2146545

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-f86e203baf' 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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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 2.06
Release: 57.fc36
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Summary: Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more

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