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[Feature] Update tboot to version 1.8.2

Bug #1350140 reported by Yingying Zhao on 2014-07-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
intel	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
tboot (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Tim Gardner	Ubuntu ubuntu-14.10
Trusty	Fix Released	Undecided	Tim Gardner
Utopic	Fix Released	Undecided	Tim Gardner	Ubuntu ubuntu-14.10

Bug Description

This release is to fix one security issue: TBOOT Argument Measurement Vulnerability for GRUB2 + ELF Kernels

Source package tboot-1.8.2.tar.gz can be downloaded from sourceforge.net:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot/files/tboot/tboot-1.8.2.tar.gz/download

Major changes since 1.8.1 (20140516)
Security Fix: TBOOT Argument Measurement Vulnerability for GRUB2 + ELF Kernels
fix werror in 32 bit build environment

Please consider to update tboot to v1.8.2 in 14.10.

Tags: verification-done

CVE References

2014-5118

Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) on 2014-07-30

information type:	Proprietary → Public
Changed in tboot (Ubuntu Utopic):
assignee:	nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
status:	New → In Progress

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-07-30:

This bug was fixed in the package tboot - 1.8.2-0ubuntu1

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tboot (1.8.2-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Security Fix: TBOOT Argument Measurement Vulnerability for GRUB2 + ELF Kernels
  * fix werror in 32 bit build environment
    -LP: #1350140
-- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:47:02 -0600

Changed in tboot (Ubuntu Utopic):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Yingying Zhao (yingying-zhao) wrote on 2014-07-31:

Tim, thanks for the quick response!

I attached the bug report from the original reporter, and this vulnerability already has a CVE ID assigned now: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/260.

Considering the security impact, can we update tboot in 14.04 LTS to v1.8.2?

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Yingying Zhao (yingying-zhao) wrote on 2014-07-31:

tboot_flaw.pdf Edit (362.0 KiB, application/pdf)

Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) on 2014-07-31

Changed in tboot (Ubuntu Utopic):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-14.10
Changed in tboot (Ubuntu Trusty):
assignee:	nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
status:	New → In Progress

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote on 2014-08-08:

Unsubscribing ubuntu-security-sponsors, since there is no actionable item for now. Please re-subscribe when a debdiff with the minimal fix is available for sponsoring.

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote on 2014-08-18: Please test proposed package

Hello Yingying, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tboot into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tboot/1.8.2~0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in tboot (Ubuntu Trusty):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Yingying Zhao (yingying-zhao) wrote on 2014-08-21:

We have finished the validation of tboot 1.8.2 package at ubuntu14.04.1 with both legacy and efiboot mode. And we didn't find new bugs except the known issues.

Change the tag to verification-done.

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote on 2014-08-26: Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tboot has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-08-26:

This bug was fixed in the package tboot - 1.8.2~0ubuntu1

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tboot (1.8.2~0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Security Fix: TBOOT Argument Measurement Vulnerability for GRUB2 + ELF Kernels
    CVE-2014-5118 - seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/260
    sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/0efdaf7c5348701484d24562e6e5323d85bb94d3/
  * fix werror in 32 bit build environment
    dropped debian/patches/fix-werror-format.patch, merged upstream
    -LP: #1350140
  * Added debian/patches/hg_archival.patch to satisfy packaging against
    upstream orig tarball using Debian Quilt 3.0
-- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:47:02 -0600