USN-6920-1: EDK II vulnerabilities

First published: Mon Jul 29 2024(Updated: )

It was discovered that EDK II was not properly performing bounds checks in Tianocompress, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An authenticated user could use this issue to potentially escalate their privileges via local access. (CVE-2017-5731) It was discovered that EDK II had an insufficient memory write check in the SMM service, which could lead to a page fault occurring. An authenticated user could use this issue to potentially escalate their privileges, disclose information and/or create a denial of service via local access. (CVE-2018-12182) It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled memory in DxeCore, which could lead to a stack overflow. An unauthenticated user could this issue to potentially escalate their privileges, disclose information and/or create a denial of service via local access. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-12183) It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled memory in the Variable service under certain circumstances. An authenticated user could use this issue to potentially escalate their privileges, disclose information and/or create a denial of service via local access. (CVE-2018-3613) It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled memory in its system firmware, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An unauthenticated user could use this issue to potentially escalate their privileges and/or create a denial of service via network access. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-0160)

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/ovmf	<0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1	0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/qemu-efi	<0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1	0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/qemu-efi-aarch64	<0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1	0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/qemu-efi-arm	<0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1	0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.3+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/ovmf	<0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.2+esm1	0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.2+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04
All of
ubuntu/qemu-efi	<0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.2+esm1	0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.2+esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04

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collector/usn
source/Ubuntu
agent/software-canonical-lookup
agent/severity
agent/title
agent/references
agent/softwarecombine
agent/last-modified-date
agent/description
agent/weakness
agent/type
agent/first-publish-date
agent/event
agent/tags
agent/trending
package-manager/ubuntu
vendor/ubuntu
canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04

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