openSUSE Security Update: Security update for grub2 ______________________________________________________________________________
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 ______________________________________________________________________________
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