RHSA-2024:9088 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)
• openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)
• openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)
• edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298)

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 9.5 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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2257571 - CVE-2023-6129 openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC
• BZ - 2258502 - CVE-2023-6237 openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys
• BZ - 2259944 - CVE-2024-0727 openssl: denial of service via null dereference
• BZ - 2284243 - CVE-2024-1298 edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability
• RHEL-26879 - rebase to edk2-stable202402
• RHEL-32486 - rebase to edk2-stable202405 [rhel-9]
• RHEL-36446 - edk2: enable MOR [rhel-9]
• RHEL-28751 - [SVVP + HCK-CI] Prepare minimal HSTI driver and merge it into OVMF upstream
• RHEL-43442 - edk2 disconnects abnormally before loading the kernel
• RHEL-45899 - [RHEL-9.5.0] edk2 hit Failed to generate random data
• RHEL-56081 - [EDK2] Shim fallback reboot workaround might not work on SNP
• RHEL-56974 - qemu-kvm: warning: Blocked re-entrant IO on MemoryRegion: acpi-cpu-hotplug at addr: 0x0 [rhel-9]

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6129
• CVE-2023-6237
• CVE-2024-0727
• CVE-2024-1298

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index