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Medium ALSA-2023:6919 1 CVE

Moderate: edk2 security and bug fix update

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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)

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 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-aarch64 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-ovmf 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858038
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-6919.html