RHSA-2024:1415 — Security Advisory

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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.

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: Buffer overflow in the DHCPv6 client via a long Server ID option (CVE-2023-45230)

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

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

• edk2: Buffer overflow when processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message (CVE-2023-45234)

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.