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Low ALSA-2024:0888 1 CVE

Low: edk2 security update

Published Feb 20, 2024 · 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):

* openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)

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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-aarch64 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8_9.3
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-ovmf 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-6.el8_9.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3

    Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters

    Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex() or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long delays. Where the k…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3446
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2224962
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-0888.html