ELSA-2015-2401

ELSA-2015-2401 - grub2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:SECURITY
Severity:LOW
Release Date:2015-11-23

Description


[2.02-0.29.0.1]
- Fix comparison in patch for 18504756
- Remove symlink to grub environment file during uninstall on EFI platforms
[bug 19231481]
- update Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
- Put 'with' in menuentry instead of 'using' [bug 18504756]
- Use different titles for UEK and RHCK kernels [bug 18504756]

[2.02-0.29]
- Fix DHCP6 timeouts due to failed network stack once more.
Resolves: rhbz#1267139

[2.02-0.28]
- Once again, rebuild for the right build target.
Resolves: CVE-2015-5281

[2.02-0.27]
- Remove multiboot and multiboot2 modules from the .efi builds; they
should never have been there.
Resolves: CVE-2015-5281

[2.02-0.26]
- Be more aggressive about trying to make sure we use the configured SNP
device in UEFI.
Resolves: rhbz#1257475

[2.02-0.25]
- Force file sync to disk on ppc64le machines.
Resolves: rhbz#1212114

[2.02-0.24]
- Undo 0.23 and fix it a different way.
Resolves: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.23]
- Reverse kernel sort order so they're displayed correctly.
Resolves: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.22]
- Make upgrades work reasonably well with grub2-setpassword .
Related: rhbz#985962

[2.02-0.21]
- Add a simpler grub2 password config tool
Related: rhbz#985962
- Some more coverity nits.

[2.02-0.20]
- Deal with some coverity nits.
Related: rhbz#1215839
Related: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.19]
- Rebuild for Aarch64
- Deal with some coverity nits.
Related: rhbz#1215839
Related: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.18]
- Update for an rpmdiff problem with one of the man pages.
Related: rhbz#1124074


Related CVEs


CVE-2015-5281

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) grub2-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.src.rpmc1925d804080e1c1c9c77207157d963bELBA-2021-9158
grub2-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm841935391c61c074b5446390c3ac52b3ELBA-2021-9158
grub2-efi-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm882e34873d0e601a9dfa7852b8d61e5cELBA-2016-2336
grub2-efi-modules-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpmfeaae8be786f5bd097841680a05fc54eELBA-2016-2336
grub2-tools-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm8b541a9cd8ecdc7999979e4ab1e1df62ELBA-2021-9158



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