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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2015-0480

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Mageia Linux Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2015-0480

Insight

Insight

A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system (CVE-2015-8370).

Solution

Solution

Update the affected packages to the latest available version.

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