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Fedora 41: Critical edk2 Security Advisory for openssl time bug

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Patch resolves CVE-2023-6237 through an edk2 firmware enhancement targeting defective RSA public key handling.
Security fix for CVE-2023-6237 (openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys)

Summary

EDK II is a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development

environment for the UEFI and PI specifications. This package contains sample

64-bit UEFI firmware builds for QEMU and KVM.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-6237 (openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora openssl edk2 time issue CVE-2023-6237

Change Log

* Fri Oct 11 2024 Paolo Bonzini - 20240813-2 - add openssl fix for CVE-2023-6237

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2258502 - CVE-2023-6237 openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258502

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-9cc95d56ce' 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: edk2
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 20240813
Release: 2.fc41
URL: http://www.tianocore.org
Summary: UEFI firmware for 64-bit virtual machines

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora openssl edk2 time issue CVE-2023-6237

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