(RHSA-2024:6849) Important: edk2 security update

2024-09-1911:10:04

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rhsa-2024

edk2

uefi

firmware

security update

buffer overflow

dhcpv6

cve-2023-45235

cvss score

references

unix

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

ADJACENT

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.4

Confidence

Low

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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: Buffer overflow when handling Server ID option from a DHCPv6 proxy Advertise message (CVE-2023-45235)

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
RedHat8noarchedk2-ovmf< 20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8_2.5edk2-ovmf-20190829git37eef91017ad-9.el8_2.5.noarch.rpm