[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2387-1: important: Security update for grub2

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for grub2

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2387-1

Rating: important

References: #774666 #917427 #946148 #952539 #954126 #954519

#955493 #955609 #956631

Cross-References: CVE-2015-8370

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

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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)

 

 

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 12-SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2015-1027=1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2015-1027=1

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):

 

grub2-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-debuginfo-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (ppc64le):

 

grub2-powerpc-ieee1275-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (x86_64):

 

grub2-i386-pc-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-x86_64-efi-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-x86_64-xen-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (noarch):

 

grub2-snapper-plugin-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (s390x):

 

grub2-debugsource-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-s390x-emu-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (x86_64):

 

grub2-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-debuginfo-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-i386-pc-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-x86_64-efi-2.02~beta2-73.3

grub2-x86_64-xen-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (noarch):

 

grub2-snapper-plugin-2.02~beta2-73.3

 

 

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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