Recommended update for shim

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:2718-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

The shim bootloader for UEFI secure boot support was updated to the unified version 0.9 between SUSE Linux Enterprise versions (same as SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1). (FATE#318904)

This also fixes two bugs:

  • RSOD comes when you enter and exit from grub command line (bsc#919675)
  • StrCpy() could crash fallback.efi due to the under-allocated buffer (bsc#920515)

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:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-shim-09-12832=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-shim-09-12832=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64)
    • shim-0.9-11.7
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • shim-0.9-11.7

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