CVE-2021-38578

edk2-tools: EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines

CVE-2021-38578 is fixed in 10 products on 1 platform, first by ovmf 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2, released March 3, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
9.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0102
63rd percentile

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: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286) * edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation (CVE-2021-38578) * openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304) * openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450) * openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215) 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
edk2 · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 2022.11-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38578 Mar 3, 2022
edk2 · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 2022.11-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38578 Mar 3, 2022
edk2 · Debian 14 2022.11-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38578 Mar 3, 2022
edk2-aarch64 · RHEL 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-aarch64 · almalinux 9 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ALSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-aarch64 · ol 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ELSA-2023-2165 May 15, 2023
edk2-ovmf · RHEL 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-ovmf · almalinux 9 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ALSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-ovmf · ol 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ELSA-2023-2165 May 15, 2023
edk2-tools · RHEL 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-tools · almalinux 9 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ALSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-tools · ol 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ELSA-2023-2165 May 15, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · RHEL 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · almalinux 9 20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ALSA-2023:2165 May 9, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · ol 9 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 ELSA-2023-2165 May 15, 2023
ovmf · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 ovmf 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 Mar 3, 2022
ovmf · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 ovmf 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 Mar 3, 2022
ovmf · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 ovmf 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 Mar 3, 2022
ovmf-ia32 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 ovmf-ia32 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 qemu-efi 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 qemu-efi 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 qemu-efi 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-aarch64 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 qemu-efi-aarch64 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-aarch64 · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 qemu-efi-aarch64 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-aarch64 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 qemu-efi-aarch64 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-arm · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 qemu-efi-arm 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm2 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-arm · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 qemu-efi-arm 0~20191122.bd85bf54-2ubuntu3.6 Mar 3, 2022
qemu-efi-arm · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 qemu-efi-arm 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.3 Mar 3, 2022

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