openSUSE Security Update: Security update for grub2
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0036-1
Rating: important
References: #774666 #917427 #946148 #952539 #954126 #954519
#955493 #955609 #956631
Cross-References: CVE-2015-8370
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.1
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has 8 fixes is
now available.

Description:

– Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. (bsc#956631,
CVE-2015-8370)
– Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. (bsc#954126)
– Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp. (bsc#955493)
– Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty.
(bsc#954519)
– Add luks, gcry_rijndael and gcry_sha1 to signed EFI image to support
LUKS partition in default setup. (bsc#917427, bsc#955609)
– Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems
installed on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539) This update was
imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-10=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

grub2-2.02~beta2-76.1
grub2-branding-upstream-2.02~beta2-76.1
grub2-debuginfo-2.02~beta2-76.1
grub2-i386-pc-2.02~beta2-76.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

grub2-x86_64-efi-2.02~beta2-76.1
grub2-x86_64-xen-2.02~beta2-76.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

grub2-snapper-plugin-2.02~beta2-76.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586):

grub2-i386-efi-2.02~beta2-76.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8370.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/774666
https://bugzilla.suse.com/917427
https://bugzilla.suse.com/946148
https://bugzilla.suse.com/952539
https://bugzilla.suse.com/954126
https://bugzilla.suse.com/954519
https://bugzilla.suse.com/955493
https://bugzilla.suse.com/955609
https://bugzilla.suse.com/956631

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