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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-0968 Important: edk2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch released for edk2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, impacting essential operations.
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Summary

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: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk (CVE-2018-12180)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important edk2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12180 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: edk2-20180508gitee3198e672e2-9.el8_0.1.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20180508gitee3198e672e2-9.el8_0.1.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20180508gitee3198e672e2-9.el8_0.1.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0968-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0968
Issue date: 2019-05-07

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important edk2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1683372 - CVE-2018-12180 edk2: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk

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