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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 RHSA-2023:4128-01 Critical: Edk2 Update

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2023
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A significant edk2 enhancement has just been released for Red Hat Linux 8.6. Essential security updates resolve various vulnerabilities associated with OpenSSL.
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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):
* openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)
* openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)
* 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux critical patch security impact OpenSSL issue Important edk2 update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4304 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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):
Source: edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.1.src.rpm
noarch: edk2-aarch64-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.1.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.1.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-2023:4128-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4128
Issue date: 2023-07-18

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6Extended 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux critical patch security impact OpenSSL issue Important edk2 update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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