ALAS-2024-555


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-555
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-29 10:29 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-05 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

The "/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg" configuration file allows an unprivileged user with physical access to a computer to bypass the GRUB password protection feature on many (but not all) UEFI-based systems. (CVE-2023-4001)


Affected Packages:

grub2


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update grub2 --releasever 2023.3.20240304 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-emu-modules-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-ec2-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-emu-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-tools-extra-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-tools-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-emu-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64
    grub2-debugsource-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.aarch64

noarch:
    grub2-common-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.noarch
    grub2-pc-modules-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.noarch
    grub2-efi-x64-modules-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.noarch
    grub2-efi-aa64-modules-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.noarch

src:
    grub2-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.src

x86_64:
    grub2-tools-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-emu-modules-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-efi-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-minimal-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-pc-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-emu-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-extra-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-emu-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-ec2-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-efi-x64-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-extra-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-minimal-debuginfo-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-tools-efi-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64
    grub2-debugsource-2.06-61.amzn2023.0.11.x86_64