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HistoryDec 16, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

grub2 - security update

2015-12-1600:00:00
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6.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.6%

Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll, from Cybersecurity UPV Research Group,
found an integer underflow vulnerability in Grub2, a popular bootloader.
A local attacker can bypass the Grub2 authentication by inserting a
crafted input as username or password.

More information:

http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html

CVE-2015-8370

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.99-27+deb7u3.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.02~beta2-33.

We recommend that you upgrade your grub2 packages.

CPENameOperatorVersion
grub2eq2.02~beta2-22

6.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.6%