[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: grub2-2.02-0.18.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-90c27b6e91
2015-12-17 04:32:19.028301
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Name        : grub2
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 2.02
Release     : 0.18.fc22
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Summary     : Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more
Description :
The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and customizable
bootloader with modular architecture.  It support rich varietyof kernel formats,
file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices.  This subpackage
provides support for PC BIOS systems.

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Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2015-8370.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1290417 - CVE-2015-8370 grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290417
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update grub2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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