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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-14865: Security patch for grub2 (ALAS-2021-1684)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-14865: Security patch for grub2 (ALAS-2021-1684)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/29/2019
Created
03/06/2024
Added
03/05/2024
Modified
03/05/2024

Description

A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-common
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-ec2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-modules
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64-cdboot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64-ec2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-efi-x64-modules
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-emu
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-emu-modules
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-pc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-pc-modules
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-tools-efi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-tools-extra
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-grub2-tools-minimal

References

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