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[RHSA-2023:2165] edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity Important
Affected Packages 5
CVEs 5
Info Packages References Vulnerabilities

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):

  • openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

  • edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation (CVE-2021-38578)

  • openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)

  • openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

  • openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Package Affected Version
pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools?arch=x86_64&distro=redhat-9.2 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools?arch=aarch64&distro=redhat-9.2 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools-doc?distro=redhat-9.2 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-ovmf?distro=redhat-9.2 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-aarch64?distro=redhat-9.2 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
ID
RHSA-2023:2165
Severity
important
URL
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2165
Published
2023-05-09T00:00:00
(16 months ago)
Modified
2023-05-09T00:00:00
(16 months ago)
Rights
Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
Other Advisories
Type Package URL Namespace Name / Product Version Distribution / Platform Arch Patch / Fix
Affected pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools?arch=x86_64&distro=redhat-9.2 redhat edk2-tools < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 redhat-9.2 x86_64
Affected pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools?arch=aarch64&distro=redhat-9.2 redhat edk2-tools < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 redhat-9.2 aarch64
Affected pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-tools-doc?distro=redhat-9.2 redhat edk2-tools-doc < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 redhat-9.2
Affected pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-ovmf?distro=redhat-9.2 redhat edk2-ovmf < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 redhat-9.2
Affected pkg:rpm/redhat/edk2-aarch64?distro=redhat-9.2 redhat edk2-aarch64 < 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 redhat-9.2
# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories Exploits PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date
# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date