RHSA-2015:2623Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: grub2 security and bug fix update

Published
December 15, 2015
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8370 — grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup

🎯 Affected products42

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • grub2-debuginfo-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.33.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)