RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2023:4124)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178421

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for edk2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4124 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)

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.

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

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

Solution

Update the RHEL edk2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4124.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a0ed499e

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164440

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4124

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 178421

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4124.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0286

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0286

CWE: 704

RHSA: 2023:4124