Issued:
2023-11-14
Updated:
2023-11-14

RHSA-2023:6919 - Moderate: edk2 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: edk2 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

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 Moderate. 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):

  • edk2: Function GetEfiGlobalVariable2() return value not checked in DxeImageVerificationHandler() (CVE-2019-14560)

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 8.9 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 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10aarch64

Updated Packages

  • edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8.src.rpm
  • edk2-aarch64-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information