RHSA-2020:3217: Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update

First published: Wed Jul 29 2020(Updated: )

The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader (GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.<br>The shim package contains a first-stage UEFI boot loader that handles chaining to a trusted full boot loader under secure boot environments.<br>The fwupdate packages provide a service that allows session software to update device firmware.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> grub2: Crafted grub.cfg file can lead to arbitrary code execution during boot process (CVE-2020-10713)</li> <li> grub2: grub_malloc does not validate allocation size allowing for arithmetic overflow and subsequent heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2020-14308)</li> <li> grub2: Integer overflow in grub_squash_read_symlink may lead to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2020-14309)</li> <li> grub2: Integer overflow read_section_as_string may lead to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2020-14310)</li> <li> grub2: Integer overflow in grub_ext2_read_link leads to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2020-14311)</li> <li> grub2: Fail kernel validation without shim protocol (CVE-2020-15705)</li> <li> grub2: Use-after-free redefining a function whilst the same function is already executing (CVE-2020-15706)</li> <li> grub2: Integer overflow in initrd size handling (CVE-2020-15707)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> grub2 doesn't handle relative paths correctly for UEFI HTTP Boot (BZ#1616395)</li> <li> UEFI HTTP boot over IPv6 does not work (BZ#1732765)</li> Users of grub2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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