Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6931-03 - An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: edk2 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6931-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6931
Issue date: 2024-09-23
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-45235
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Summary:
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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 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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-45235
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258700