The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1415 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):

    * edk2: Buffer overflow in the DHCPv6 client via a long Server ID option (CVE-2023-45230)

    * edk2: Function GetEfiGlobalVariable2() return value not checked in DxeImageVerificationHandler()     (CVE-2019-14560)

    * openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)

    * edk2: Buffer overflow when processing DNS Servers option in a DHCPv6 Advertise message (CVE-2023-45234)

    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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2024:1415)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 192272

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Version 1.3 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") 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: 202411080519
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Mar 20, 2024, 5:38 AM New Plugin Feed: 202403200538