RHSA-2021:3369 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 31, 2021

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

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):

  • edk2: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe (BZ#1956284)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:3369 — Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security update | PulseLinux