[ale] grub

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 15:49:48 EST 2015


RedHat marked this as a medium risk.
On Dec 16, 2015 3:40 PM, "DjPfulio" <DjPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> The grub issue is for those locations that allow physical access to their
> systems and attempt to lock them down anyways.
>
> If you don't lock down grub, the BIOS and external boot media on your
> systems , then this bug is nothing compared to what is already left open.
>
> Every administrator is taught how to log into a system without a password
> when there's physical access available. If you aren't blocking this
> already, this bug really doesn't mean anything to you.
>
> On 16 December 2015 15:15:48 GMT-05:00, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.csoonline.com/article/3016100/security/vulnerability-in-popular-bootloader-puts-locked-down-linux-computers-at-risk.html
>>
>
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