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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4198 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-11-09
Updated:
2021-11-09

RHSA-2021:4198 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Moderate: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: edk2 (20210527gite1999b264f1f). (BZ#1846481, BZ#1938238)

Security Fix(es):

  • openssl: integer overflow in CipherUpdate (CVE-2021-23840)
  • openssl: NULL pointer dereference in X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() (CVE-2021-23841)

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 8.5 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 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1930310 - CVE-2021-23841 openssl: NULL pointer dereference in X509_issuer_and_serial_hash()
  • BZ - 1930324 - CVE-2021-23840 openssl: integer overflow in CipherUpdate
  • BZ - 1937564 - [RFE] support VCPU hot unplug in OVMF/edk2
  • BZ - 1938238 - rebase edk2 to edk2-stable202105 for RHEL-8.5
  • BZ - 1938257 - refresh OpenSSL bundled with edk2 for RHEL-8.5
  • BZ - 1956837 - Additional build of edk2 without SMM (dual build / sub-package) for SEV-ES
  • BZ - 1988762 - edk2 does not ignore PMBR protective record BootIndicator as required by UEFI spec

CVEs

  • CVE-2021-23840
  • CVE-2021-23841

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0ca2f38e8ca01fb68c22e401499f182bbc7aab956abb006523969f876d4c188

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0ca2f38e8ca01fb68c22e401499f182bbc7aab956abb006523969f876d4c188

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0ca2f38e8ca01fb68c22e401499f182bbc7aab956abb006523969f876d4c188

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0ca2f38e8ca01fb68c22e401499f182bbc7aab956abb006523969f876d4c188

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
aarch64
edk2-aarch64-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0e1d0ba1223bf19a8dac21c8fa17c24cfabc3920751d96cd5e325ad237a4e5d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
aarch64
edk2-aarch64-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0e1d0ba1223bf19a8dac21c8fa17c24cfabc3920751d96cd5e325ad237a4e5d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 535b8ee2a5b766e88f466c77f575e26384005b5008503da40d48d9ab12f6dd04
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0ca2f38e8ca01fb68c22e401499f182bbc7aab956abb006523969f876d4c188

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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