ALSA-2024:2456

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2024-04-30 00:00 – Updated: 2024-05-07 15:07 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Moderate: grub2 security update
Details

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: grub2-set-bootflag can be abused by local (pseudo-)users (CVE-2024-1048)
  • grub2: Out-of-bounds write at fs/ntfs.c may lead to unsigned code execution (CVE-2023-4692)
  • grub2: out-of-bounds read at fs/ntfs.c (CVE-2023-4693)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2024:2456",
  "modified": "2024-05-07T15:07:50Z",
  "published": "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2456"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4692"
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4693"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2236613"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2238343"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2256827"
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      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2456.html"
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    "CVE-2024-1048",
    "CVE-2023-4692",
    "CVE-2023-4693"
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  "summary": "Moderate: grub2 security update"
}



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