Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1290
Advisory Release Date: 2019-09-13 23:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-09-19 16:04 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Insufficient memory write check in SMM service for EDK II may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. (CVE-2018-12182)
Stack overflow in XHCI for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. (CVE-2019-0161)
Buffer overflows were discovered in UDF-related codes under MdeModulePkg\Universal\Disk\PartitionDxe\Udf.c and MdeModulePkg\Universal\Disk\UdfDxe, which could be triggered with long file names or invalid formatted UDF media. (CVE-2019-0160)
Stack overflow in DxeCore for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. (CVE-2018-12183)
Improper configuration in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access. (CVE-2018-12179)
Affected Packages:
edk2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update edk2 to update your system.
aarch64:
edk2-tools-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
edk2-debuginfo-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
noarch:
edk2-tools-python-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.noarch
edk2-tools-doc-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.noarch
edk2-aarch64-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.noarch
edk2-ovmf-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
edk2-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
edk2-tools-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
edk2-debuginfo-20190501stable-2.amzn2.0.1.x86_64