RHSA-2022:8900 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: grub2 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 8, 2022
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The grub2 packages provide version 2 of the Grand Unified Boot Loader (GRUB), a highly configurable and customizable boot loader with modular architecture. The packages support a variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures, and hardware devices.
Security Fix(es):
- grub2: Integer underflow in grub_net_recv_ip4_packets (CVE-2022-28733)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.