ALSA-2021:4198

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Source
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-4198.html
Import Source
https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:4198.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALSA-2021:4198
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Published
2021-11-09T08:37:02Z
Modified
2021-11-12T10:20:56Z
Summary
Moderate: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
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 X509issuerandserialhash() (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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 / edk2-ovmf

Package

Name
edk2-ovmf

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8