RHSA-2024:3497 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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

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):

• edk2: Buffer overflow when processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message (CVE-2023-45234)
• edk2: Buffer overflow in the DHCPv6 client via a long Server ID option (CVE-2023-45230)

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, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• 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 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2258685 - CVE-2023-45230 edk2: Buffer overflow in the DHCPv6 client via a long Server ID option
• BZ - 2258697 - CVE-2023-45234 edk2: Buffer overflow when processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message

CVEs

• CVE-2023-45230
• CVE-2023-45234

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important