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openSUSE 15.3: grub2 Moderate Side-Channel Risk CVE-2024-56738 Details

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch resolves a significant vulnerability in grub2, targeting a side-channel exploitation concern within openSUSE Leap.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for grub2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-56738: Fixed side-channel attack due to not constant-time algorithm

in grub_crypto_memcmp (bsc#1234959)

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2705=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2705=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-2705=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* grub2-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-debuginfo-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-branding-upstream-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64 i586)

* grub2-debugsource-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)

* grub2-i386-pc-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-snapper-plugin-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-powerpc-ieee1275-debug-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-i386-pc-debug-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-arm64-efi-extras-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-x86_64-xen-extras-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-i386-xen-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-i386-efi-debug-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-s390x-emu-extras-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-i386-efi-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-x86_64-xen-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-powerpc-ieee1275-extras-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-x86_64-efi-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-i386-efi-extras-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-arm64-efi-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin-2.04-150300.22.58.1

* grub2-arm64-efi-debug-2.04-150300.22.58.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1234959

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56738.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234959

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02705-1
Release Date: 2025-08-05T10:08:15Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2

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