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Fedora 40: 2024-07342adb87 DoS Advisory for Efifs Update

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora advisory reports on an efifs upgrade aimed at mitigating a Denial of Service vulnerability recognized as CVE-2024-1298.
Update bundled edk2 to 20240524 (#2284243)

Summary

Free software EFI/UEFI standalone file system drivers, based on the GRUB 2.0

read-only drivers: AFFS (Amiga Fast FileSystem), BFS (BeOS FileSystem), btrfs,

exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, F2FS (experimental), HFS and HFS+ (Mac OS, including

the compression support), ISO9660, JFS (Journaled FileSystem), nilfs2, NTFS

(including compression support), ReiserFS, SFS (Amiga Smart FileSystem), UDF,

UFS/FFS, UFS2/FFS2, XFS, ZFS and more.

Update Information:

Update bundled edk2 to 20240524 (#2284243)

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS efifs

Change Log

* Sun Jun 2 2024 Robert Scheck 1.9-6 - Update bundled edk2 to 20240524 (#2284243)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2284243 - CVE-2024-1298 edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2284243

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-07342adb87' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: efifs
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.9
Release: 6.fc40
URL: https://efi.akeo.ie/
Summary: Free software EFI/UEFI standalone file system drivers

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS efifs

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