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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: shim security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:1959-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1959
Issue date:         2024-04-23
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-40546
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Summary: 

An update for shim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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:

The shim package contains a first-stage UEFI boot loader that handles chaining
to a trusted full boot loader under secure boot environments.

Security Fix(es):

* shim: RCE in http boot support may lead to Secure Boot bypass (CVE-2023-40547)

* shim: Interger overflow leads to heap buffer overflow in verify_sbat_section on 32-bits systems (CVE-2023-40548)

* shim: Out-of-bounds read printing error messages (CVE-2023-40546)

* shim: Out-of-bounds read in verify_buffer_authenticode() malformed PE file (CVE-2023-40549)

* shim: Out-of-bound read in verify_buffer_sbat() (CVE-2023-40550)

* shim: out of bounds read when parsing MZ binaries (CVE-2023-40551)

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.

IMPORTANT: The new shim revokes ALL VERSIONS of GRUB2 before grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.14. Therefore GRUB2 MUST be updated to the latest
version: grub2-2.02-0.87.el7_9.14 BEFORE or SIMULTANEOUSLY with this shim in order for Secure Boot to continue to work. Failure to update GRUB2 will result in an UNBOOTABLE system.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2023-40546

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234589
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241782
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241796
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241797
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259915
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259918
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-2155
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4382
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4390