Medium: edk2

Issue Overview:

EDK2 contains a vulnerability when S3 sleep is activated where an Attacker may cause a Division-By-Zero due to a UNIT32 overflow via local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Availability. (CVE-2024-1298)

Affected Packages:

edk2

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update edk2 to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    edk2-tools-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.aarch64  
    edk2-debuginfo-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.aarch64  
  
noarch:  
    edk2-tools-python-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch  
    edk2-tools-doc-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch  
    edk2-ovmf-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch  
    edk2-aarch64-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch  
  
src:  
    edk2-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.src  
  
x86_64:  
    edk2-tools-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.x86_64  
    edk2-debuginfo-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-1298

Mitre: CVE-2024-1298