Home / vulnerabilities Slackware Security Advisory - grub Updates
Posted on 19 December 2015
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
-----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@slackware.com
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| To leave the slackware-security mailing list: |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of |
| the email message: |
| |
| unsubscribe slackware-security |
| |
| You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to |
| complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1
iEYEARECAAYFAlZzmjoACgkQakRjwEAQIjMOSgCfSP6r2Rgy6i3BR9K1OTOOGNFl
QfEAmQHsCx//n5LWFGnhxfZFn5n7K1qP
=oD09
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
