grub2: modules built in on EFI builds that allow loading arbitrary code, circumventing secure boot

It was discovered that grub2 builds for EFI systems contained modules that were not suitable to be loaded in a Secure Boot environment. An attacker could use this flaw to circumvent the Secure Boot mechanisms and load non-verified code. Attacks could use the boot menu if no password was set, or t...

java.jvm.byte.code.ver.txt

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:56:10 -0400 From: Gary McGraw To: [email protected] Subject: Security Hole in Java 2 and JDK 1.1.x Hi all, Karsten Sohr at the University of Marburg in Germany email [email protected] has discovered a very serious security flaw in several current versions ...