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Martin Prpič 2015-12-01 09:09:42 UTC CC security-response-team
Red Hat Bugzilla 2015-12-01 09:09:42 UTC Doc Type --- Bug Fix
Martin Prpič 2015-12-01 09:14:36 UTC Blocks 1286968
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:30:46 UTC Comment 1 is private 1 0
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:30:59 UTC Attachment #1100986 Attachment is private 1 0
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:41:35 UTC Whiteboard impact=moderate,public=20151210,reported=20151201,source=redhat,cvss2=4.4/AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P,fedora-all/grub2=affected,rhel-7/grub2=affected impact=moderate,public=20151210,reported=20151201,source=researcher,cvss2=6.9/AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C,cwe=CWE-787,rhel-5/grub=notaffected,rhel-6/grub=notaffected,rhel-7/grub2=affected,fedora-all/grub2=affected
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:52:55 UTC Doc Text A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system.
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:53:23 UTC Depends On 1288493
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-04 11:53:28 UTC Depends On 1288494
Martin Prpič 2015-12-04 12:15:09 UTC Doc Text A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system. A flaw was found in the way grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system.
Martin Banas 2015-12-08 11:24:06 UTC CC mbanas
Peter Jones 2015-12-09 16:15:47 UTC Status NEW MODIFIED
Fixed In Version grub2-2.02-0.31.el7
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-09 20:26:02 UTC Status MODIFIED NEW
Fixed In Version grub2-2.02-0.31.el7
Martin Prpič 2015-12-10 13:13:13 UTC Summary EMBARGOED CVE-2015-8370 grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup CVE-2015-8370 grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup
Martin Prpič 2015-12-10 13:13:16 UTC Group security, qe_staff
Martin Prpič 2015-12-10 13:14:02 UTC Depends On 1290417
Salvatore Bonaccorso 2015-12-10 21:34:55 UTC CC carnil
Tomas Hoger 2015-12-15 11:07:38 UTC Status NEW CLOSED
Resolution --- ERRATA
Last Closed 2015-12-15 06:07:38 UTC
Product Security DevOps Team 2019-09-29 13:40:12 UTC Whiteboard impact=moderate,public=20151210,reported=20151201,source=researcher,cvss2=6.9/AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C,cwe=CWE-787,rhel-5/grub=notaffected,rhel-6/grub=notaffected,rhel-7/grub2=affected,fedora-all/grub2=affected
Jan Pazdziora 2023-07-25 14:57:48 UTC CC jpazdziora, pmatouse
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Gabriel Gaspar Becker 2023-08-01 12:56:18 UTC CC ggasparb
Petr Matousek 2023-08-10 11:35:54 UTC CC bootloader-eng-team, jaredz, mlewando, pjanda, pkotvan, rharwood
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