[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: grub2-2.00-27.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16378
2014-12-06 01:55:17
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Name        : grub2
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.00
Release     : 27.fc20
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:

Security fix for CVE-2014-4607
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec  5 2014 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 2.00-27
- Update minilzo to 2.08 for CVE-2014-4607
  Resolves: rhbz#1131793
* Mon Jun 23 2014 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> - 2.00-26
- Don't require password to boot normally - #840204
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1112418 - CVE-2014-4607 lzo: lzo1x_decompress_safe() integer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112418
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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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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