Issued:
2021-03-02
Updated:
2021-03-02

RHSA-2021:0699 - Moderate: grub2 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: grub2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Security Fix(es):

  • grub2: acpi command allows privileged user to load crafted ACPI tables when Secure Boot is enabled (CVE-2020-14372)

  • grub2: Use-after-free in rmmod command (CVE-2020-25632)

  • grub2: Out-of-bounds write in grub_usb_device_initialize() (CVE-2020-25647)

  • grub2: Stack buffer overflow in grub_parser_split_cmdline() (CVE-2020-27749)

  • grub2: cutmem command allows privileged user to remove memory regions when Secure Boot is enabled (CVE-2020-27779)

  • grub2: Heap out-of-bounds write in short form option parser (CVE-2021-20225)

  • grub2: Heap out-of-bounds write due to miscalculation of space required for quoting (CVE-2021-20233)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • grub2-pc-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-tools-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-tools-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-debuginfo-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • grub2-tools-extra-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-tools-minimal-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-ppc64le-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-ppc-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-tools-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • grub2-efi-ia32-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-ppc64-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • grub2-tools-minimal-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-efi-ia32-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-efi-aa64-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-tools-extra-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • grub2-common-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-tools-minimal-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm
  • grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.src.rpm
  • grub2-debuginfo-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-pc-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-tools-extra-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-efi-x64-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
  • grub2-debuginfo-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-ppc64-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.noarch.rpm
  • grub2-ppc64le-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64le.rpm
  • grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.2.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

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References

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