- Issued:
- 2024-04-16
- Updated:
- 2024-04-16
RHSA-2024:1835 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Important: shim security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An update for shim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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
The shim package contains a first stage UEFI boot loader that handles chaining to a trusted full boot loader under secure boot environments.
Security Fix(es):
- shim: RCE in http boot support may lead to Secure Boot bypass (CVE-2023-40547)
- shim: Interger overflow leads to heap buffer overflow in verify_sbat_section on 32-bits systems (CVE-2023-40548)
- shim: Out-of-bounds read printing error messages (CVE-2023-40546)
- shim: Out-of-bounds read in verify_buffer_authenticode() malformed PE file (CVE-2023-40549)
- shim: Out-of-bound read in verify_buffer_sbat() (CVE-2023-40550)
- shim: out of bounds read when parsing MZ binaries (CVE-2023-40551)
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.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
- Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
Fixes
- BZ - 2234589 - CVE-2023-40547 shim: RCE in http boot support may lead to Secure Boot bypass
- BZ - 2241782 - CVE-2023-40548 shim: Interger overflow leads to heap buffer overflow in verify_sbat_section on 32-bits systems
- BZ - 2241796 - CVE-2023-40546 shim: Out-of-bounds read printing error messages
- BZ - 2241797 - CVE-2023-40549 shim: Out-of-bounds read in verify_buffer_authenticode() malformed PE file
- BZ - 2259915 - CVE-2023-40550 shim: Out-of-bound read in verify_buffer_sbat()
- BZ - 2259918 - CVE-2023-40551 shim: out of bounds read when parsing MZ binaries
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0
SRPM | |
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shim-15.8-3.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7edbbca0b07cafd5bfbb3a62a11e857d583a6b4ac00f36d0626b05b522d38616 |
x86_64 | |
shim-x64-15.8-3.el9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 064e8485384c1cda940b7b50a07f6ee970db05b57d73110eb38be7dfb8b258e0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0
SRPM | |
---|---|
shim-15.8-3.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7edbbca0b07cafd5bfbb3a62a11e857d583a6b4ac00f36d0626b05b522d38616 |
shim-unsigned-aarch64-15.8-2.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 47ebcdddec3f99a11118a0409c2797737f51fdcf3f711989b229387b53b2381d |
aarch64 | |
shim-aa64-15.8-3.el9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: def1e697cd988a1a789ad580c2008cfcc5eeb03df9cf90c8a96fe9cb66c8f1d7 |
shim-unsigned-aarch64-15.8-2.el9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 1952f1c5e093f5e2410904bc03c40397cff5d0e640da86baca1365ae9922445c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0
SRPM | |
---|---|
shim-15.8-3.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7edbbca0b07cafd5bfbb3a62a11e857d583a6b4ac00f36d0626b05b522d38616 |
x86_64 | |
shim-x64-15.8-3.el9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 064e8485384c1cda940b7b50a07f6ee970db05b57d73110eb38be7dfb8b258e0 |
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0
SRPM | |
---|---|
shim-unsigned-x64-15.8-2.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 0b0749a53724382c8565cd65c9f115c066483212cc91eaf42d8fe649b3e5efa4 |
x86_64 | |
shim-unsigned-x64-15.8-2.el9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f830b41c5e8f136d61c8f34048c966f3f9a51cf78ccad574458a47bda7d6740b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0
SRPM | |
---|---|
shim-15.8-3.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 7edbbca0b07cafd5bfbb3a62a11e857d583a6b4ac00f36d0626b05b522d38616 |
shim-unsigned-aarch64-15.8-2.el9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 47ebcdddec3f99a11118a0409c2797737f51fdcf3f711989b229387b53b2381d |
aarch64 | |
shim-aa64-15.8-3.el9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: def1e697cd988a1a789ad580c2008cfcc5eeb03df9cf90c8a96fe9cb66c8f1d7 |
shim-unsigned-aarch64-15.8-2.el9.aarch64.rpm | SHA-256: 1952f1c5e093f5e2410904bc03c40397cff5d0e640da86baca1365ae9922445c |
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