The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2932 advisory.

    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)

    * 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2023:2932)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 175831

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Version 1.5 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080820
Version 1.4 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:U") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.3 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.2 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.1 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.1 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.0 May 16, 2023, 11:10 PM New Plugin Feed: 202305162310