crp Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 flaw in grub. Really? Someone sat there banging away at the backspace? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 And it was fixed the same day it was announced. At least this article didn't claim that linux was hacked as others did. This simply bypassed the grub bootloader if you set up a password on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 And of course, a livecd can accomplish the same thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 yup. windows, likewise. Yeah that was my response to a few articles.. If you dual boot with windows, I guess windows is hacked as well? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 And it was fixed the same day it was announced. At least this article didn't claim that linux was hacked as others did. This simply bypassed the grub bootloader if you set up a password on it. My grub isn't password protected anyway, but I don't recall having seen a grub patch come through for Mint 17.3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Hello, I suspect it was more eyeballing the code than taking the "monkeys at the typewriter" approach. It does point out that physical security is important. If someone can gain physical access to a computer, they can usually find a way to perturb it. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 And it was fixed the same day it was announced. At least this article didn't claim that linux was hacked as others did. This simply bypassed the grub bootloader if you set up a password on it. My grub isn't password protected anyway, but I don't recall having seen a grub patch come through for Mint 17.3. I do not know about Mint's update but no distro gives you the option of password protecting your bootloader in the installers. You must manually do this. Since Mint uses Ubuntu software sources, it looks like it should of been updated: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2836-1/ $ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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