Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1305-03 - An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: edk2 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1305-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1305
Issue date: 2024-03-13
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-45234
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Summary:
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
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 processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message (CVE-2023-45234)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-45234
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258697