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RedHat: RHSA-2020:4805-01 Moderate: EDK2 Memory Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent edk2 security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux features various bug resolutions, a new improvement, and additional information.
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: memory leak in ArpOnFrameRcvdDpc (CVE-2019-14559)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix memory leak red hat enterprise edk2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14559 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: edk2-20200602gitca407c7246bf-3.el8.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20200602gitca407c7246bf-3.el8.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20200602gitca407c7246bf-3.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-2020:4805-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4805
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 memory leak red hat enterprise edk2

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1758601 - CVE-2019-14559 edk2: memory leak in ArpOnFrameRcvdDpc

1808845 - RFE: write "Auto Boot Time-out" DEBUG messages for the GetFrontPageTimeoutFromQemu() function

1817035 - rebase edk2 to upstream tag edk2-stable202005 for RHEL-8.3

1861718 - Very slow boot when overcommitting CPU

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