SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : grub2 (SUSE-SU-2015:2385-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87668

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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)

Also following bugs were fixed :

- Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password.
(bsc#956631, CVE-2015-8370)

- 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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-grub2-12288=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-grub2-12288=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-grub2-12288=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884828

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884830

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=946148

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952539

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956631

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8370/

http://www.nessus.org/u?befd91fa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87668

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2385-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-xen, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8370