(RHSA-2024:3184) Moderate: grub2 security update

The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader (GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.

Security Fix(es):

• grub2: grub2-set-bootflag can be abused by local (pseudo-)users (CVE-2024-1048)

• grub2: Out-of-bounds write at fs/ntfs.c may lead to unsigned code execution (CVE-2023-4692)

• grub2: out-of-bounds read at fs/ntfs.c (CVE-2023-4693)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.