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Debian DLA-368-1 : grub2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87330

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Hector Marco-Gisbert, from the Universitat Politècnica de València Cybersecurity Team, reported a buffer overflow in grub2 when checking password during bootup.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', this problem has been fixed in grub2 version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze2. We recommend you to upgrade your grub2 packages.

Learn more about the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Project and how to apply these updates at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/12/msg00009.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/grub2

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87330

File Name: debian_DLA-368.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:debian:debian_linux:grub-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-coreboot, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-efi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-efi-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-efi-ia32, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-emu, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-firmware-qemu, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-ieee1275, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-linuxbios, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-pc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub-rescue-pc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:grub2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8370