SUSE-SU-2015:2385-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-12-29 08:04 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:09Summary
Security update for grub2
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for grub2
Description of the patch: This update for grub2 provides the following fixes:
A security issues with a bufferoverflow when reading username and password was fixed (bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370)
Also following bugs were fixed:
- Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. (bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370)
- Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems installed
on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539)
- Add grub.xen config searching path on boot partition. (bsc#884828)
- Add linux16 and initrd16 to grub.xen. (bsc#884830)
Patchnames: sledsp4-grub2-12288,slessp4-grub2-12288
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Recommended
6 products
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-efi-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-xen-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-efi-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-xen-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-efi-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:grub2-x86_64-xen-0:2.00-0.54.2.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
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Threats
Impact
moderate
References
13 references
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