Issued:
2024-01-24
Updated:
2024-01-24

RHSA-2024:0408 - Moderate: edk2 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: edk2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

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)

  • openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)

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.

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_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.2.src.rpm
  • edk2-aarch64-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.2.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.2.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information