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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2019-3338 Moderate: edk2 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The EDK2 kernel has been refreshed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, classified as moderate in terms of security, addressing numerous critical vulnerabilities.
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 impact of Moderate

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: Stack buffer overflow with corrupted BMP (CVE-2018-12181)
* edk2: Buffer overflows in PartitionDxe and UdfDxe with long file names and invalid UDF media (CVE-2019-0160)
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix red hat enterprise linux edk2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12181 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0160 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: edk2-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8.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/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3338-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3338
Issue date: 2019-11-05

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 impact of Moderate. 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix red hat enterprise linux edk2

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1666941 - UEFI guest cannot boot into os when setting some special memory size

1686783 - CVE-2018-12181 edk2: Stack buffer overflow with corrupted BMP

1687731 - rebase edk2 to upstream tag edk2-stable201903 for RHEL-8.1

1691640 - CVE-2019-0160 edk2: Buffer overflows in PartitionDxe and UdfDxe with long file names and invalid UDF media

1693205 - edk2: Enable TPM2 support

1714446 - edk2-aarch64 silent build is not silent enough

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