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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Security Update RHSA-2020-1712-01 Moderate

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new release of edk2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 classified as Moderate, includes vital security patches and bug resolutions aimed at improving overall system efficiency.
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: numeric truncation in MdeModulePkg/PiDxeS3BootScriptLib (CVE-2019-14563)
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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux edk2 numeric truncation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14563 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: edk2-20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20190829git37eef91017ad-9.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-2020:1712-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1712
Issue date: 2020-04-28

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux edk2 numeric truncation

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1748180 - rebase edk2 to upstream tag edk2-stable201908 for RHEL-8.2

1751993 - DxeImageVerificationLib handles "DENY execute on security violation" like "DEFER execute on security violation" [rhel8]

1758620 - CVE-2019-14563 edk2: numeric truncation in MdeModulePkg/PiDxeS3BootScriptLib

1789335 - VM with edk2 can't boot when setting memory with '-m 2001'

1789797 - Backport upstream patch series: "UefiBootManagerLib, HttpDxe: tweaks for large HTTP(S) downloads" to improve HTTP(S) Boot experience with large (4GiB+) files

1806359 - bochs-display cannot show graphic wihout driver attach

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