Important: edk2 security update

Synopsis

Important: edk2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk (CVE-2018-12180)
  

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1683372 - CVE-2018-12180 edk2: Buffer Overflow in BlockIo service for RAM disk

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12180

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important