Does CVE-2015-8370 affect Grub included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
Issue
A flaw was found in the way grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- grub2
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