RHEL 8 : edk2 (RHSA-2021:3172)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165159

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for edk2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3172 advisory.

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: remote buffer overflow in IScsiHexToBin function in NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe (BZ#1956284)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL edk2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:3172.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165159

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3172.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38575

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:edk2-ovmf

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38575

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2021:3172

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