RHSA-2026:18465 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

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: EDK2: Improper Input Validation allows arbitrary command execution (CVE-2025-2296)

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 10 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 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 10.2 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2420637 - CVE-2025-2296 edk2: EDK2: Improper Input Validation allows arbitrary command execution
• RHEL-118386 - [edk2,rhel-10] rebase to edk2-stable202511
• RHEL-112106 - [RHEL-10.1] TD guest dmesg reports ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): Incorrect checksum in table [APIC] - 0x29
• RHEL-116433 - [edk2] memory logging does not work with sev-snp
• RHEL-138335 - [AmpereoneX] ArmConfigureMmu: The MaxAddress 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF is not supported by this MMU configuration
• RHEL-147785 - [edk2] pick up openssl updates
• RHEL-150696 - edk2: Add JSON descriptors for uefi-vars builds

CVEs

• CVE-2025-2296

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/10.2_release_notes/index