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ALSA-2023:2165 Not scored

Important: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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): * openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286) * edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation (CVE-2021-38578) * openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304) * openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450) * openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215) 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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published May 9, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:9 edk2-ovmf
AlmaLinux:9 edk2-aarch64
AlmaLinux:9 edk2-tools
AlmaLinux:9 edk2-tools-doc

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2023:2165

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): * openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286) * edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation (CVE-2021-38578) * openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304) * openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450) * openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215) 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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence