ALAS-2024-2578


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2578
Advisory Release Date: 2024-06-19 19:15 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-06-24 16:35 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

EDK2 contains a vulnerability when S3 sleep is activated where an Attacker may cause a Division-By-Zero due to a UNIT32 overflow via local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Availability. (CVE-2024-1298)


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.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    edk2-tools-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.aarch64
    edk2-debuginfo-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.aarch64

noarch:
    edk2-tools-python-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch
    edk2-tools-doc-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch
    edk2-ovmf-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch
    edk2-aarch64-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.noarch

src:
    edk2-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.src

x86_64:
    edk2-tools-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.x86_64
    edk2-debuginfo-20200801stable-1.amzn2.0.7.x86_64