Published: 30/07/2020 Updated: 21/11/2024

On July 29, 2020, a research paper titled “There’s a Hole in the Boot” was made publicly available. This paper discusses a vulnerability discovered in the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2 (GRUB2) bootloader that may allow an malicious user to execute arbitrary code at system boot time. The vulnerability is due to incorrect bounds checking of certain values parsed from the GRUB2 configuration file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted configuration file for GRUB2. When this file is processed, an exploitable buffer overflow condition may occur. A successful exploit could allow the malicious user to inject arbitrary code that is executed before the operating system is loaded on the targeted system. On systems protected by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot feature, exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the malicious user to tamper with the secure boot process. Multiple Cisco products are affected by this vulnerability. Cisco will release software updates that address this vulnerability. Any workarounds for a specific Cisco product or service will be documented in the relevant Cisco bugs, which are identified in the Vulnerable Products section of this advisory. This advisory will be updated as additional information becomes available. This advisory is available at the following link:tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-grub2-code-exec-xLePCAPY

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GRUB2 bootloader CVE-2020-10713 A flaw in the grubcfg parsing code was found allowing to break UEFI Secure Boot and load arbitrary code Details can be found at wwweclypsiumcom/2020/07/29/theres-a-hole-in-the-boot/ CVE-2020-14308 It was discovered that grub_malloc does ...

Synopsis Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, shim-signed, and fwupdate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 76 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Mo ...

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 77 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...

Synopsis Important: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for cockpit-ovirt, imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise ...

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) b ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, and shim-signed is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 72 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, and shim-signed is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Synopsis Important: redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, shim-unsigned-x64, and fwupd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 81 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, shim-signed, and fwupdate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerabi ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, shim-unsigned-x64, and fwupd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scor ...

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 81 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type / Sévérité Security Advisory: Moderate Sujet An update for grub2, shim, shim-signed, and fwupdate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 77 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact ...

Synopsis Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, shim-signed, and fwupdate is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterpr ...

Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (C ...

Synopsis Moderate: grub2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for grub2, shim, and fwupd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 80 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common V ...

On July 29, 2020, a research paper titled “There’s a Hole in the Boot” was made publicly available This paper discusses a vulnerability discovered in the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2 (GRUB2) bootloader that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code at system boot time The vulnerability is due to incorrect bounds checking of cert ...

HP has been informed of a potential security vulnerability in GRUB2 bootloaders commonly used by Linux This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot” (also nicknamed “BootHole”), could allow bypass of UEFI Secure Boot and allow arbitrary code execution Additional GRUB2 vulnerabilities found in response to the initial report ...

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[This message expands slightly on the post to the distros list on 2020-07-20] Hello All, There are several CVEs both in GRUB2 and the Linux kernel (details below) that compromise UEFI Secure boot and kernel lockdown * These bugs allow unsigned code to be booted and run on hardware configured to prevent that * Affected vendors will be pu ...

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Red Hat / CentOS kernel shim signatures This git repository contains shim signatures (SHA-256) for all released RHEL and CentOS versions Description Due to hardening within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel, which was released as part of the CVE-2020-10713 update, previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel versions have not been added to shim’s allow list If you are

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GRUB2, you're getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system

The Register • Shaun Nichols in San Francisco • 29 Jul 2020

We're gonna keeping punning this until someone pays us $5m

An annoying vulnerability in the widely used GRUB2 bootloader can be potentially exploited by malware or a rogue insider already on a machine to thoroughly compromise the operating system or hypervisor while evading detection by users and security tools. This affects mainly Linux-based computers and devices, where GRUB2 is deployed a lot, though boxes running Windows can be potentially roped in, too. Any system on which GRUB2 can be installed and run at boot-time is potentially vulnerable. Desig...

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