RHBA-2025:7134 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.6 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.6 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-56248 - 507x510 display resolution should not crash the firmware [edk2,rhel-9.6]
• RHEL-65725 - [Regression] HTTP Boot not working on old vCPU without virtio-rng device present [rhel-9.6]
• RHEL-66230 - [Regression] [aarch64] HTTP Boot not working on old vCPU without virtio-rng device present [rhel-9.6]
• RHEL-58631 - [Regression] HTTP Boot fails to work with edk2-ovmf-20231122-6.el9_4.2 and greater
• RHEL-58063 - [edk2,rhel-9] rebase to edk2-stable202411
• RHEL-23052 - [EDK2] add support for 5-level paging to OVMF [rhel-9]
• RHEL-56737 - edk2 hit "Error: Image at 0023FA7B000 start failed: Aborted" during booting
• RHEL-57004 - [RHEL-9.5.0] edk2 hide image builder related display info
• RHEL-72447 - QEMU should creating new json file that will correctly describe firmware for amd-sev-snp [rhel-9]

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.6_release_notes/index