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Medium ALSA-2026:36721 1 CVE

Moderate: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Jul 8, 2026 · 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: Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap (CVE-2025-9230)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* [FJ8.10 Bug] How to Update Secure Boot Certificates with Microsoft 2023 in KVM Guests (JIRA:AlmaLinux-151949)

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_10.10
AlmaLinux · 8 edk2-ovmf 20220126gitbb1bba3d77-13.el8_10.10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8

    Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap

    Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9230
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2396054
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-36721.html