boot loader

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2021
GRUB2 boot loader maintainers fixed hundreds of flaws

Now maintainers at the GRUB project have released security updates to address more than 100 vulnerabilities. GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) is a replacement for the original GRUB Legacy boot loader, which is now referred to as “GRUB Legacy”. The mechanism is designed to protect the boot process from attacks. In July 2020, researchers at the cybersecurity firmware Eclypsium disclosed a buffer […]