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| From | David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: grub2 security problem |
| Date | 2015-12-20 05:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qHDtL-481-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qHm9A-1pd-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <qHtkJ-63n-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 12/19/2015 08:59 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> writes: >> I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in >> grub2. >> >> E.g. >> >> http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html >> >> Is there any substance to this? > > Yes, for the microscopic proportion of people who put a password on > their bootloader in the first place, +1 (I had never heard of GRUB usernames/ passwords before today. That sounds like more of an annoyance than security.) A good defense against an attacker with physical access is LUKS encryption on all partitions except /boot. Be sure to buy CPU's with AES-NI. Another, additional, option is self-encrypting drives (SED), which are operating system agnostic and protect the entire contents of drive with zero CPU overhead. David
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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
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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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