cve-2022-48769
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-20 11:13
Modified
2024-11-04 12:16
Severity ?
Summary
efi: runtime: avoid EFIv2 runtime services on Apple x86 machines
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3df52448978802ae15dcebf66beba1029df957b4
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4085859411c825c321c9b55b8a9dc5a128a6684
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0f1cc093bc2493ac259c53766fd2b800e085807
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5390cd0b43c2e54c7cf5506c7da4a37c5cef746
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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