Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:4419-01 (edk2) [LWN.net]

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 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 when handling Server ID option from a DHCPv6 proxy Advertise message (CVE-2023-45235) * edk2: Integer underflow when processing IA_NA/IA_TA options in a DHCPv6 Advertise message (CVE-2023-45229) * edk2: Out of Bounds read when handling a ND Redirect message with truncated options (CVE-2023-45231) * edk2: Predictable TCP Initial Sequence Numbers (CVE-2023-45236) * edk2: Use of a Weak PseudoRandom Number Generator (CVE-2023-45237) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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