RLSA-2021:4198

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:4198
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:4198.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2021:4198
Related
Published
2021-11-09T08:37:02Z
Modified
2023-02-02T14:11:41.374173Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
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 Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / edk2

Package

Name
edk2
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/edk2?distro=rocky-linux-8-5-x86-64-legacy&epoch=0

Affected ranges

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