news 28 Posted December 18, 2015 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] grub (SSA:2015-351-01) New grub packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/grub-2.00-i486-3_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched bug where password protection during system startup may be bypassed by hitting the backspace key 28 times giving a rescue shell. Thanks to Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8370 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/grub-2.00-i486-3_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/grub-2.00-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/grub-2.00-i586-3.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/grub-2.00-x86_64-3.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.1 package: 5de408a0c4faa8c4cb7fbf926d983b17 grub-2.00-i486-3_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 8c7c4da23a03536fc5306fce459d0695 grub-2.00-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: 5a416c513f561c91bb8fc1387f6622d3 a/grub-2.00-i586-3.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 37119f35ad70e576303636cd3e9b4f0e a/grub-2.00-x86_64-3.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg grub-2.00-i486-3_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
