RedHat: RHSA-2020-1712:01 Moderate: edk2 security, bug fix,
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.
Summary
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
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/
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.
Topic
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
