RHSA-2022:8978 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: grub2 security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 14, 2022
Updated · May 28, 2026
Topic
An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):
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grub2: Buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph() can lead to out-of-bound write and possible secure boot bypass (CVE-2022-2601)
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grub2: Heap based out-of-bounds write when redering certain unicode sequences (CVE-2022-3775)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
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Kernel Panic on Milan when enable SEV/SEV-ES with CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted (BZ#2130104)
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[RHEL9.0][SecureBoot][Denali/P10] boot process stops at grub prompt after copying the signed grub to prep partition (BZ#2134358)
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RHEL9.0 [MAXconfig]: Denali LPAR crashs while booting MAX config 240c / 64TB - 192 decimal is the biggest partition min value Linux can handle? (BZ#2134434)
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ISST-LTE:[P10]:RPT:After FW update,while activating the lpar dexlp87 went to ERROR state with LED B2008105 - 7E sub return code (BZ#2135288)