RHBA-2013:1649 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated grub packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The grub packages provide GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader), a boot loader
capable of booting a wide variety of operating systems.

These updated grub packages include several bug fixes and one enhancement. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/grub.html#RHBA-2013-1649

Users of grub are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add this enhancement

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 854652 - Documentation is not generated properly during build
• BZ - 916016 - grub-efi should recognize virtio-blk devices
• BZ - 922705 - Grub spec file does not specify that it requires 32-bit glibc-static to be linked even if building x86_64
• BZ - 928938 - Installing to a multipathed device on the most recent version of grub causes grub to be unreadable

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/grub.html#RHBA-2013-1649