Issued:
2024-11-12
Updated:
2024-11-12

RHSA-2024:9088 - 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 9.

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):

  • mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)

  • openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)

  • openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)

  • edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298)

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 9.5 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_649x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle9.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 649aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle9.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates9.6aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS9.6x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_649x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.6x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian9ppc64le
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support9.6ppc64le
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems9s390x
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support9.6s390x
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 649aarch64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.6aarch64

Updated Packages

  • edk2-tools-debuginfo-20240524-6.el9_5.x86_64.rpm
  • edk2-tools-20240524-6.el9_5.aarch64.rpm
  • edk2-aarch64-20240524-6.el9_5.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-debugsource-20240524-6.el9_5.x86_64.rpm
  • edk2-tools-doc-20240524-6.el9_5.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-debugsource-20240524-6.el9_5.aarch64.rpm
  • edk2-ovmf-20240524-6.el9_5.noarch.rpm
  • edk2-tools-20240524-6.el9_5.x86_64.rpm
  • edk2-tools-debuginfo-20240524-6.el9_5.aarch64.rpm
  • edk2-20240524-6.el9_5.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information