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RHSA-2021:3172: Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security update

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-38575: edk2: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe

3 years ago

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Issued:

2021-08-17

Updated:

2021-08-17

RHSA-2021:3172 - Security Advisory

Overview
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Synopsis

Important: edk2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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):

edk2: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe (BZ#1956284)

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.

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

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