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Medium ALSA-2024:9088 4 CVEs

Moderate: edk2 security update

Published Nov 12, 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):

* mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)
* openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)
* openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)
* edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-1298)

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 20240524-6.el9_5
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-ovmf 20240524-6.el9_5
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-tools 20240524-6.el9_5
AlmaLinux · 9 edk2-tools-doc 20240524-6.el9_5

Vulnerabilities 4

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2023-6129

    POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC

    Issue summary: The POLY1305 MAC (message authentication code) implementation contains a bug that might corrupt the internal state of applications running on PowerPC CPU based platforms if the CPU provides vector instructions. Impact summary: If an attacker ca…

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi
  • Medium 6.0
    CVE-2024-1298

    Integer Overflow caused by divide by zero during S3 suspension

    EDK2 contains a vulnerability when S3 sleep is activated where an Attacker may cause a Division-By-Zero due to a UNIT32 overflow via local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Availability.

    TianoCore EDK2 edk2 edk2 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2023-6237

    Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys

    Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take a long time. Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVP_PKEY_public_check() to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that is being checked has been…

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2024-0727

    PKCS12 Decoding crashes

    Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in …

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi PyPI

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6129
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6237
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0727
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1298
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2257571
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2258502
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2259944
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2284243
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9088.html