Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20214198
Revision Date:2021-11-09Version:636
Title:RHSA-2021:4198: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate)
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.

  • 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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2021-23840
    CVE-2021-23841
    RHSA-2021:4198
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • edk2-aarch64 is earlier than 0:20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8
  • AND edk2-aarch64 is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • edk2-ovmf is earlier than 0:20210527gite1999b264f1f-3.el8
  • AND edk2-ovmf is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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