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Medium ELSA-2021-0699 7 CVEs

Moderate: grub2 security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Mar 5, 2021 · Updated Mar 5, 2021

Summary

[2.02-0.87.0.8.e7.2]
- Enable common subpackage for aarch64
- Disable RHEL patch 0183-efinet-retransmit-if-our-device-is-busy.patch to comply with UEFI spec
- add SBAT metadata for Oracle Linux grub2
- Use similar format for menu entry in grub environment block
- config file. [Orabug: 32172943]
- Fix degradation in multiboot2 code [Orabug: 32069510]
- Update signing certificate for efi binaries
- Update upstream references [Orabug: 30138841]
- Restore symlink to grub environment file, that was removed during grub2-efi update
if grub2 package is also installed on UEFI machines [Orabug: 27345750]
- fix symlink removal scriptlet, to be executed only on removal [Orabug: 19231481]
- Fix comparison in patch for [Orabug: 18504756]
- Remove symlink to grub environment file during uninstall on EFI platforms [Orabug: 19231481]
- replace dynamic EFI boot folder path generation with predefined 'redhat' (Alex Burmashev)
- Put 'with' in menuentry instead of 'using' [Orabug: 18504756]
- Use different titles for UEK and RHCK kernels [Orabug: 18504756]

[2.02-0.87.e7.2]
- Fix another batch of CVEs
Resolves: CVE-2020-14372
Resolves: CVE-2020-25632
Resolves: CVE-2020-25647
Resolves: CVE-2020-27749
Resolves: CVE-2020-27779
Resolves: CVE-2021-20225
Resolves: CVE-2021-20233

[2.02-0.87.e7.1]
- Fix keyboards that report IBM PC AT scan codes
Resolves: rhbz#1892240

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-common 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-aa64 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-ia32 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-ia32-modules 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-x64 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-x64-cdboot 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-efi-x64-modules 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-pc 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-pc-modules 1:2.02-0.87.0.7.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-tools 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-tools-extra 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2
Oracle Linux · 7 grub2-tools-minimal 1:2.02-0.87.0.8.el7_9.2

Vulnerabilities 7