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SUSE-SU-2015:2386-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-12-29 08:04 - Updated: 2015-12-29 08:04
Summary
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) Bugs fixed: - 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: sledsp3-grub2-12287,slessp3-grub2-12287
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
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA:grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA:grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-efi-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3:grub2-x86_64-xen-2.00-0.49.2.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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