RHSA-2019:2125 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ovmf security and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 2019
Updated · September 21, 2026
Topic
An update for ovmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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
OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) 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):
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edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in TianoCompress.c (CVE-2017-5731)
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edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in BaseUefiDecompressLib.c (CVE-2017-5732)
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edk2: Privilege escalation via heap-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function (CVE-2017-5733)
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edk2: Privilege escalation via stack-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function (CVE-2017-5734)
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edk2: Privilege escalation via heap-based buffer overflow in Decode() function (CVE-2017-5735)
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edk2: Logic error in MdeModulePkg in EDK II firmware allows for privilege escalation by authenticated users (CVE-2018-3613)
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openssl: Side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures (PortSmash) (CVE-2018-5407)
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edk2: Stack buffer overflow with corrupted BMP (CVE-2018-12181)
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edk2: buffer overflows in PartitionDxe and UdfDxe with long file names and invalid UDF media (CVE-2019-0160)
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edk2: stack overflow in XHCI causing denial of service (CVE-2019-0161)
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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.