openSUSE: Security Advisory for grub2 (openSUSE-SU-2016:0036-1)
🗓️ 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Vulnerabilities in the Grub2 operating system loaders, which allow attackers to obtain confidential information or cause service failures | 22 Jan 201600:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2015-8370 affecting package grub2 2.02-26 | 9 Sep 202006:09 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CentOS 7 : grub2 (CESA-2015:2623) | 17 Dec 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DLA-368-1 : grub2 security update | 14 Dec 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-3421-1 : grub2 - security update | 17 Dec 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| F5 Networks BIG-IP : GRUB2 vulnerability (SOL25901386) | 14 Jan 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 22 : grub2-2.02-0.18.fc22 (2015-90c27b6e91) | 4 Mar 201600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 23 : grub2-2.02-0.25.fc23 (2015-cebe5133e7) | 4 Mar 201600:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851189");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-02-02 17:17:23 +0100 (Tue, 02 Feb 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8370");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.9");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("openSUSE: Security Advisory for grub2 (openSUSE-SU-2016:0036-1)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'grub2'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"grub2 on openSUSE Leap 42.1");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"openSUSE-SU", value:"2016:0036-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=openSUSELeap42\.1");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "openSUSELeap42.1") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2", rpm:"grub2~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-branding-upstream", rpm:"grub2-branding-upstream~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-debuginfo", rpm:"grub2-debuginfo~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-i386-pc", rpm:"grub2-i386-pc~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-x86_64-efi", rpm:"grub2-x86_64-efi~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-x86_64-xen", rpm:"grub2-x86_64-xen~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-snapper-plugin", rpm:"grub2-snapper-plugin~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"grub2-i386-efi", rpm:"grub2-i386-efi~2.02~beta2~76.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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