[El-errata] ELSA-2015-2401 Low: Oracle Linux 7 grub2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Nov 23 19:06:08 PST 2015


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-2401

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2401.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
grub2-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
grub2-efi-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
grub2-efi-modules-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
grub2-tools-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/grub2-2.02-0.29.0.1.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.02-0.29.0.1]
- Fix comparison in patch for 18504756
- Remove symlink to grub environment file during uninstall on EFI platforms
   [bug 19231481]
- update Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
- Put "with" in menuentry instead of "using" [bug 18504756]
- Use different titles for UEK and RHCK kernels [bug 18504756]

[2.02-0.29]
- Fix DHCP6 timeouts due to failed network stack once more.
   Resolves: rhbz#1267139

[2.02-0.28]
- Once again, rebuild for the right build target.
   Resolves: CVE-2015-5281

[2.02-0.27]
- Remove multiboot and multiboot2 modules from the .efi builds; they
   should never have been there.
   Resolves: CVE-2015-5281

[2.02-0.26]
- Be more aggressive about trying to make sure we use the configured SNP
   device in UEFI.
   Resolves: rhbz#1257475

[2.02-0.25]
- Force file sync to disk on ppc64le machines.
   Resolves: rhbz#1212114

[2.02-0.24]
- Undo 0.23 and fix it a different way.
   Resolves: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.23]
- Reverse kernel sort order so they're displayed correctly.
   Resolves: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.22]
- Make upgrades work reasonably well with grub2-setpassword .
   Related: rhbz#985962

[2.02-0.21]
- Add a simpler grub2 password config tool
   Related: rhbz#985962
- Some more coverity nits.

[2.02-0.20]
- Deal with some coverity nits.
   Related: rhbz#1215839
   Related: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.19]
- Rebuild for Aarch64
- Deal with some coverity nits.
   Related: rhbz#1215839
   Related: rhbz#1124074

[2.02-0.18]
- Update for an rpmdiff problem with one of the man pages.
   Related: rhbz#1124074





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