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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 RHSA-2021-3172 Important edk2 Update

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2021
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An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow red hat important edk2 remote buffer overflow

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: edk2-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8_1.1.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8_1.1.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-2021:3172-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3172
Issue date: 2021-08-17

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Extended Update Support.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 update buffer overflow red hat important edk2 remote buffer overflow

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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