rhsa-2021_4198
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2021-11-09 18:33
Modified
2024-11-22 16:57
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Notes

Topic
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Details
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. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: edk2 (20210527gite1999b264f1f). (BZ#1846481, BZ#1938238) Security Fix(es): * openssl: integer overflow in CipherUpdate (CVE-2021-23840) * openssl: NULL pointer dereference in X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() (CVE-2021-23841) 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Terms of Use
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}


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