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Title    Red Hat and CentOS Systems Aren’t Booting Due to BootHole Patches
Date    Saturday August 01 2020, @12:44AM
Author    chromas
Topic   
from the do-you-have-update-for-my-boothole? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/07/31/2059230

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:

Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches:

Early this morning, an urgent bug showed up at Red Hat's bugzilla bug tracker—a user discovered that the RHSA_2020:3216 grub2 security update and RHSA-2020:3218 kernel security update rendered an RHEL 8.2 system unbootable.

[...] The patches were intended to close a newly discovered vulnerability in the GRUB2 boot manager called BootHole.

[...] Unfortunately, Red Hat's patch to GRUB2 and the kernel, once applied, are leaving patched systems unbootable. The issue is confirmed to affect RHEL 7.8 and RHEL 8.2, and it may affect RHEL 8.1 and 7.9 as well. RHEL-derivative distribution CentOS is also affected.

Red Hat is currently advising users not to apply the GRUB2 security patches (RHSA-2020:3216 or RHSA-2020:3217) until these issues have been resolved.

Ubuntu and Debian are also apparently affected.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/
  3. "bug" - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977
  4. "BootHole" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/new-flaw-neuters-secure-boot-but-theres-no-reason-to-panic-heres-why/
  5. "advising" - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311
  6. "RHSA-2020:3216" - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3216
  7. "RHSA-2020:3217" - https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3217
  8. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=42443

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