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Re: grub2 security problem

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Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> writes:

> Dear Folks,
>
> 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, and for whom it is possible for
someone to to access their console to defeat it but not possible for
them to simply take the disk out and steal it.

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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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