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Medium ALSA-2023:6330 2 CVEs

Moderate: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 7, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

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: Function GetEfiGlobalVariable2() return value not checked in DxeImageVerificationHandler() (CVE-2019-14560)
* openssl: Possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers (CVE-2023-2650)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-aarch64 20230524-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-ovmf 20230524-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-tools 20230524-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-tools-doc 20230524-3.el9

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2023-2650 EPSS 75%

    Possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers

    Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers or data containing them may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use OBJ_obj2txt() directly, or use any of the OpenSSL subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS with …

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2019-14560 Rejected

    DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was in a CNA pool that was not assigned to a…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14560
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2650
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858038
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2207947
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-6330.html