CVE-2019-11098

An improper input validation flaw in the MdeModulePkg module of edk2 may allow an unauthenticated attacker with physical access to the system handled by edk2 to escalate his privileges and cause a denial of service or disclose information.

Within Red Hat Enterprise Linux, edk2 is used only on virtualized systems, thus in this context the attacker needs to be a local user of the host system who have already the ability to compromise the guests systems. For this reason, this flaw has a Low Impact on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8.

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