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GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues


The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered.

The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered. Today's GNU Boot announcement does note that some free software Linux distributions endorsed by the FSF are not comfortable in using GRUB Git snapshots and thus still vulnerable: We notified Trisquel, Parabola and Guix and the ones who responded are not comfortable with updating GRUB to a not-yet released git revision.

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