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SUSE: 2015:2399-1 Urgent: Critical Grub2 Buffer Overflow Security Patch

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2015
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Recent SUSE security patch for grub2 tackles significant vulnerabilities and delivers essential corrections.
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Summary

This update for grub2 provides the following fixes and enhancements: Security issue fixed: - Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. (bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370) Non security issues fixed: - Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems installed on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539) - Add --image switch to force zipl update to specific kernel. (bsc#928131) - Do not use shim lock protocol for reading PE header as it won't be available when secure boot is disabled. (bsc#943380) - Make firmware flaw condition be more precisely detected and add debug message for the case. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:

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security advisory buffer overflow important SUSE Linux grub2

References

#928131 #943380 #946148 #952539 #956631

Cross- CVE-2015-8370

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928131

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943380

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=946148

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952539

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2399-1
Rating: important

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security advisory buffer overflow important SUSE Linux grub2

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