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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:3497 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2024-05-30
Updated:
2024-05-30

RHSA-2024:3497 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: edk2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 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
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c32ff6e5b106a05f684067b27ce838b526c532aed8d0271b58683791e75f11

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c32ff6e5b106a05f684067b27ce838b526c532aed8d0271b58683791e75f11

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c32ff6e5b106a05f684067b27ce838b526c532aed8d0271b58683791e75f11

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c32ff6e5b106a05f684067b27ce838b526c532aed8d0271b58683791e75f11

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

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
aarch64
edk2-aarch64-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d4ece85b975e79ae55e302c40fe20e15edf5e4913737a177fb137bf8a5a802d3

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

SRPM
edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.src.rpm SHA-256: 76d4157181969cf31a08d71403c7ec197d589a774bd77e9fc46c36f437c05225
x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.4.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 18c32ff6e5b106a05f684067b27ce838b526c532aed8d0271b58683791e75f11

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

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