openSUSE Security Update : grub2 (openSUSE-2016-10)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87772

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. (bsc#954126)

- Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp.
(bsc#955493)

- Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty. (bsc#954519)

- Add luks, gcry_rijndael and gcry_sha1 to signed EFI image to support LUKS partition in default setup.
(bsc#917427, bsc#955609)

- Expand list of grub.cfg search path in PV Xen guests for systems installed on btrfs snapshots. (bsc#946148, bsc#952539) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected grub2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87772

File Name: openSUSE-2016-10.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/7/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-snapper-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-x86_64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-x86_64-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-i386-efi, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:grub2-i386-pc

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8370

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