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ALSA-2024:9088 Not scored

Moderate: edk2 security 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): * mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129) * openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237) * openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727) * edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298) 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 November 12, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

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

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2024:9088

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): * mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129) * openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237) * openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727) * edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298) 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