Security update for grub2
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2015:2385-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #884828 #884830 #946148 #952539 #954592 #956631 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is now available.
Description:
This update for grub2 provides the following fixes:
A security issues with a bufferoverflow when reading username and password
was fixed (bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370)
Also following bugs were fixed:
- Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. (bsc#956631,
CVE-2015-8370)
- Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems
installed
on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539)
- Add grub.xen config searching path on boot partition. (bsc#884828)
- Add linux16 and initrd16 to grub.xen. (bsc#884830)
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 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch slessp4-grub2-12288=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch sledsp4-grub2-12288=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-grub2-12288=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (x86_64):
- grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.54.2
- grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.54.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 (x86_64):
- grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.54.2
- grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.54.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (x86_64):
- grub2-debuginfo-2.00-0.54.2
- grub2-debugsource-2.00-0.54.2