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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-2165-01 Important edk2 Fix

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial announcement concerning edk2 tackles significant security vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, accompanied by comprehensive remedies.
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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):
* openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)
* edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation (CVE-2021-38578)
* openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)
* openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)
* openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)
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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix OpenSSL important edk2 SMM escalation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38578 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4304 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4450 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0215 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0286 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: edk2-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9):
aarch64: edk2-debugsource-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64.rpm edk2-tools-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64.rpm edk2-tools-debuginfo-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch.rpm edk2-tools-doc-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch.rpm
x86_64: edk2-debugsource-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64.rpm edk2-tools-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64.rpm edk2-tools-debuginfo-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64.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-2023:2165-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2165
Issue date: 2023-05-09

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix OpenSSL important edk2 SMM escalation

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1960321 - CVE-2021-38578 edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation

1983086 - Assertion failure when creating 1024 VCPU VM: [...]UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/CpuBist.c(186): !EFI_ERROR (Status)

2125336 - Please add edk2-aarch64 and edk2-tools to CRB in RHEL 9

2132951 - edk2: Sort traditional virtualization builds before Confidential Computing builds

2157656 - [edk2] [aarch64] Unable to initialize EFI firmware when using edk2-aarch64-20221207gitfff6d81270b5-1.el9 in some hardwares

2162307 - Broken GRUB output on a serial console

2164440 - CVE-2023-0286 openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName

2164487 - CVE-2022-4304 openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation

2164492 - CVE-2023-0215 openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF

2164494 - CVE-2022-4450 openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex

2168046 - [edk2] BIOS Release Date string is unexpected length

2174605 - [EDK2] disable dynamic mmio window

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