Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:3185 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3185 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

gnu-efi bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for gnu-efi is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The gnu-efi packages contain development headers and libraries for developing applications that run under the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of gnu-efi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1453133 - arm64: remove useless .reloc section (backport gnu-efi 8581a58e5ba8 or kernel effc7b027aac)
  • BZ - 1589945 - Rebase gnu-efi to 3.0.8

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
x86_64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ba5d252a3083fa7561e2f8f11f045d11c8c63f5cc42471b9c264acfa8ba8533a
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ae5d04d346a3c966fe2f3e6eec1ba091372ebfd44b42dfe4fc96dea983d7b73
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 86fef0185c460d7ec2189e1b5617f3128ea7194702823f48c5da8a1a1d0ae96e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
x86_64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ba5d252a3083fa7561e2f8f11f045d11c8c63f5cc42471b9c264acfa8ba8533a
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ae5d04d346a3c966fe2f3e6eec1ba091372ebfd44b42dfe4fc96dea983d7b73
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 86fef0185c460d7ec2189e1b5617f3128ea7194702823f48c5da8a1a1d0ae96e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
x86_64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ba5d252a3083fa7561e2f8f11f045d11c8c63f5cc42471b9c264acfa8ba8533a
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ae5d04d346a3c966fe2f3e6eec1ba091372ebfd44b42dfe4fc96dea983d7b73
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 86fef0185c460d7ec2189e1b5617f3128ea7194702823f48c5da8a1a1d0ae96e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
x86_64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ba5d252a3083fa7561e2f8f11f045d11c8c63f5cc42471b9c264acfa8ba8533a
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ae5d04d346a3c966fe2f3e6eec1ba091372ebfd44b42dfe4fc96dea983d7b73
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 86fef0185c460d7ec2189e1b5617f3128ea7194702823f48c5da8a1a1d0ae96e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
x86_64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ba5d252a3083fa7561e2f8f11f045d11c8c63f5cc42471b9c264acfa8ba8533a
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ae5d04d346a3c966fe2f3e6eec1ba091372ebfd44b42dfe4fc96dea983d7b73
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 86fef0185c460d7ec2189e1b5617f3128ea7194702823f48c5da8a1a1d0ae96e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7

SRPM
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 921f26599ab70169e80b0ab21ee238cf4131c2473f54f9f2b900889f5604b633
aarch64
gnu-efi-3.0.8-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 5e7161528b171d1e4839992ca36d22b40ee4e0642ae105403bd2c3d0b140c16e
gnu-efi-devel-3.0.8-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: f2fc48d564c4b8ffa0142c33957858c5857f9fc679b2c1192a6c512bea03c633
gnu-efi-utils-3.0.8-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: c66e236f6eb84c0c75bdeaf7de75610805c4b42be7b818e37e3bae67b87e915d

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