Issued:
2023-05-16
Updated:
2023-05-16

RHSA-2023:2932 - Important: edk2 security update

Synopsis

Important: edk2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

Security Fix(es):

  • openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

  • openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)

  • openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

  • openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_648x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.8aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.8x86_64

Updated Packages

  • edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-aarch64-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information