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Medium ALSA-2024:11185 1 CVE

Moderate: edk2:20220126gitbb1bba3d77 security update

Published Dec 17, 2024 · 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: Integer overflows in PeCoffLoaderRelocateImage (CVE-2024-38796)

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 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-13.el8_10.4
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-ovmf 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-13.el8_10.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2024-38796

    Integer overflow in PeCoffLoaderRelocateImage

    EDK2 contains a vulnerability in the PeCoffLoaderRelocateImage(). An Attacker may cause memory corruption due to an overflow via an adjacent network. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Confidentiality, Integrity, and/or Availabil…

    TianoCore EDK2 edk2 edk2 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38796
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2315390
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-11185.html