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Medium RLSA-2024:11219 1 CVE

Moderate: edk2:20240524 security update

Published Mar 17, 2025 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 edk2 0:20240524-6.el9_5.3

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315390