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Medium ALAS2-2019-1290 5 CVEs

Moderate: edk2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 13, 2019 · Updated Sep 19, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-0161: Stack overflow in XHCI for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. 1694065: CVE-2019-0161 edk2: stack overflow in XHCI causing denial of service CVE-2019-0160: Buffer overflows were discovered in UDF-related codes under MdeModulePkg\Universal\Disk\PartitionDxe\Udf.c and MdeModulePkg\Universal\Disk\UdfDxe, which could be triggered with long file names or invalid formatted UDF media. 1691640: CVE-2019-0160 edk2: buffer overflows in PartitionDxe and UdfDxe with long file names and invalid UDF media CVE-2018-12183: Stack overflow in DxeCore for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. 1694077: CVE-2018-12183 edk2: stack overflow in DxeCore leads to privilege escalation CVE-2018-12182: Insufficient memory write check in SMM service for EDK II may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. 1694081: CVE-2018-12182 edk2: insufficient memory write in SMM service leads to privilege escalation CVE-2018-12179: Improper configuration in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. 1694072: CVE-2018-12179 edk2: improper configuration insystem firmware leads to privilege escalation

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-aarch64 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-debuginfo 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-ovmf 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-tools 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-tools-doc 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 edk2-tools-python 0:20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-12179.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-12182.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-12183.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-0160.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-0161.html