RHSA-2023:2165HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
May 9, 2023
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2022-4304 →CVE-2022-4450 →CVE-2023-0215 →CVE-2023-0286 →CVE-2021-38578 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-38578 — edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation CVE-2022-4304 — openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation CVE-2022-4450 — openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex CVE-2023-0215 — openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF CVE-2023-0286 — openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • edk2-aarch64-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • edk2-aarch64-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-debugsource-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-debugsource-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-ovmf-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • edk2-ovmf-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-tools-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-tools-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-tools-debuginfo-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-tools-debuginfo-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)
  • edk2-tools-doc-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

🔗 References (16)