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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-14865: grub2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-14865: grub2 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/29/2019
Created
01/03/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
02/06/2020

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-common
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-efi-aa64-modules
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-tools-extra
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-grub2-tools-minimal

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