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openSUSE 11.4: 2015:2392-1 Important: grub2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2015
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A crucial patch for Fedora addresses a critical vulnerability in the kernel, strengthening your system's defenses.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for grub2 fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2015-8370: Fix for overflow in grub_password_get and grub_user_get

functions (bsc#956631)

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security advisory buffer overflow system update important update patch instruction openSUSE grub2

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2015-970=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

grub2-1.98-14.1

grub2-debuginfo-1.98-14.1

grub2-debugsource-1.98-14.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8370.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956631

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:2392-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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security advisory buffer overflow system update important update patch instruction openSUSE grub2

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