ALAS2-2022-1787

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3981  

A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non privileged users to read its content. This represents a low severity confidentiality issue, as those users can eventually read any encrypted passwords present in grub.cfg. (CVE-2021-3981)

ALAS2-2022-1787


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1787
Advisory Release Date: 2022-04-25 22:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-04-27 16:35 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2021-3981 

Issue Overview:

A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non privileged users to read its content. This represents a low severity confidentiality issue, as those users can eventually read any encrypted passwords present in grub.cfg. (CVE-2021-3981)


Affected Packages:

grub2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update grub2 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    grub2-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-tools-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-tools-extra-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-ec2-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-emu-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-emu-modules-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    grub2-debuginfo-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

noarch:
    grub2-common-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    grub2-pc-modules-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    grub2-efi-aa64-modules-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    grub2-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    grub2-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-tools-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-tools-efi-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-tools-extra-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-ec2-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-pc-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-emu-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-emu-modules-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    grub2-debuginfo-2.06-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64