SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : grub2 (SUSE-SU-2015:2386-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87669

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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)

Bugs fixed :

- 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 for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-grub2-12287=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-grub2-12287=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-grub2-12287=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-grub2-12287=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87669

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2386-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/30/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-efi, 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

Detections

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