RHSA-2026:97212 - 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 Low. 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):

• openssl: Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers (CVE-2024-4741)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• [edk2,rhel-10] rebase to edk2-stable202602 (JIRA:RHEL-151719)
• edk2/x64: re-enable legacy kernel loader (JIRA:RHEL-182419)
• [edk2,rhel-10] Unable to allocate PCI BAR with edk2-20260221-1.el10 (JIRA:RHEL-188305)
• [edk2] update dbx database to release 1.6.5 (JIRA:RHEL-193127)
• [RHEL 10.3] TDX Secure Boot Setup Mode with OVMF.inteltdx.secboot.fd (JIRA:RHEL-220548)
• add shell.efi to aarch64 sub-rpm (JIRA:RHEL-235957)

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 ARM 64 10 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

Fixes

• BZ - 2283757 - CVE-2024-4741 openssl: Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers
• RHEL-151719 - [edk2,rhel-10] rebase to edk2-stable202602
• RHEL-182419 - edk2/x64: re-enable legacy kernel loader
• RHEL-188305 - [edk2,rhel-10] Unable to allocate PCI BAR with edk2-20260221-1.el10
• RHEL-193127 - [edk2] update dbx database to release 1.6.5
• RHEL-220548 - [RHEL 10.3] TDX Secure Boot Setup Mode with OVMF.inteltdx.secboot.fd
• RHEL-235957 - add shell.efi to aarch64 sub-rpm

CVEs

• CVE-2024-4741

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/10.3_release_notes/index