RedHat: RHSA-2022-8978:01 Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update
Summary
The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader
(GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular
architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file
systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.
Security Fix(es):
* grub2: Buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph() can lead to
out-of-bound write and possible secure boot bypass (CVE-2022-2601)
* grub2: Heap based out-of-bounds write when redering certain unicode
sequences (CVE-2022-3775)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* Kernel Panic on Milan when enable SEV/SEV-ES with CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm:
swapper/0 Not tainted (BZ#2130104)
* [RHEL9.0][SecureBoot][Denali/P10] boot process stops at grub prompt after
copying the signed grub to prep partition (BZ#2134358)
* RHEL9.0 [MAXconfig]: Denali LPAR crashs while booting MAX config 240c /
64TB - 192 decimal is the biggest partition min value Linux can handle?
(BZ#2134434)
* ISST-LTE:[P10]:RPT:After FW update,while activating the lpar dexlp87 went
to ERROR state with LED B2008105 - 7E sub return code (BZ#2135288)
Summary
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2601 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3775 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0):
Source:
grub2-2.06-27.el9_0.12.src.rpm
aarch64:
grub2-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-debugsource-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-efi-aa64-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-emu-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
grub2-common-2.06-27.el9_0.12.noarch.rpm
grub2-efi-aa64-modules-2.06-27.el9_0.12.noarch.rpm
grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.06-27.el9_0.12.noarch.rpm
grub2-pc-modules-2.06-27.el9_0.12.noarch.rpm
grub2-ppc64le-modules-2.06-27.el9_0.12.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
grub2-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-debugsource-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-ppc64le-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
grub2-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-debugsource-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-efi-x64-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-emu-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-pc-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-efi-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-efi-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-27.el9_0.12.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
Topic
An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
2112975 - CVE-2022-2601 grub2: Buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph() can lead to out-of-bound write and possible secure boot bypass
2138880 - CVE-2022-3775 grub2: Heap based out-of-bounds write when redering certain unicode sequences