RHSA-2024:9088 — Security Advisory

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.

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.