Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-9088-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: edk2 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:9088-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9088
Issue date: 2024-11-12
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-6129
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Summary:

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

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):

* mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)

* openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)

* openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)

* edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298)

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 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2023-6129

References:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257571
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258502
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259944
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2284243
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-26879
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28751
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-32486
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-36446
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-43442
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-45899
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-56081
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-56974