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Re: grub2 security problem

From	Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: grub2 security problem
Date	2015-12-19 13:20 +0100
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On 19 December 2015 at 11:50, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 +0000
> Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> >Is there any substance to this?
> 
> Yes, but it's been rectified.  See
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2015/msg00327.html>
> for the full security announcement.
>

Thanks a lot.   I ran grub update and did



r
oot@rhubarb:/home/michaelmikef# grub-install -V

and got

grub-install (GRUB) 2.02~beta2-33

I think this has fixed the problem.

Regards

MF



> Further, I suggest subscribing to the Debian Security Announcement
> mailing list at
> debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org?subject=subscribe
>
> It's a low volume list, averaging less than one post per day.
>
> --
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>         / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
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grub2 security problem Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2015-12-19 10:40 +0100
  Re: grub2 security problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-12-19 10:50 +0100
  Re: grub2 security problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-12-19 10:50 +0100
  Re: grub2 security problem Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-12-19 13:10 +0100
    Re: grub2 security problem Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2015-12-19 13:20 +0100
  Re: grub2 security problem Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-12-19 18:20 +0100
    Re: grub2 security problem David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-12-20 05:10 +0100
      Re: grub2 security problem Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 16:10 +0100
        Re: grub2 security problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-20 16:30 +0100
          Re: grub2 security problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-12-20 16:50 +0100
      Re: grub2 security problem Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-12-20 17:10 +0100

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