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RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2024:9946)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211772

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-2024:9946 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: Integer overflows in PeCoffLoaderRelocateImage (CVE-2024-38796)

 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-2024:9946.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315390

http://www.nessus.org/u?22f5c9e1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9946

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211772

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9946.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2024

Updated: 11/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf, 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: 11/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38796

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2024:9946