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Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2021-3567-01 Major: QEMU Memory Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian issues a critical patch for grub2 resolving stack overflow vulnerabilities in server-based Debian 11 installations.
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: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe (BZ#1956284)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security update buffer overflow important red hat enterprise linux edk2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: edk2-20200602gitca407c7246bf-4.el8_4.2.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20200602gitca407c7246bf-4.el8_4.2.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20200602gitca407c7246bf-4.el8_4.2.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-2021:3066-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3066
Issue date: 2021-08-10

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 network security update buffer overflow important red hat enterprise linux edk2

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1956284 - edk2: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe

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