(RHSA-2024:1722) Important: edk2 security update

2024-04-0914:28:22

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edk2

uefi support

virtual machines

buffer overflow fix

dns processing

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

ADJACENT

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.1%

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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 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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
RedHat8noarchedk2-ovmf< 20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8_2.4edk2-ovmf-20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8_2.4.noarch.rpm