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An edk2 security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: edk2-20221117gitfff6d81270b5-14.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-e821b64a4c
2023-03-05 00:52:34.399920
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Name : edk2
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 20221117gitfff6d81270b5
Release : 14.fc36
URL :   http://www.tianocore.org
Summary : UEFI firmware for 64-bit virtual machines
Description :
EDK II is a modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development
environment for the UEFI and PI specifications. This package contains sample
64-bit UEFI firmware builds for QEMU and KVM.

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Update Information:

add sub-package with xen build (resolves: rhbz#2170730) ---- update openssl
(CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2022-4304). ---- cherry-pick
aarch64 bugfixes, set firmware build release date, add ext4 sub-package
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Feb 17 2023 Gerd Hoffmann
- add sub-package with xen build (resolves: rhbz#2170730)
* Sat Feb 11 2023 Gerd Hoffmann - 20221117gitfff6d81270b5-13
- update openssl (CVE-2023-0286, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2022-4304).
* Wed Feb 8 2023 Gerd Hoffmann - 20221117gitfff6d81270b5-12
- cherry-pick aarch64 bugfixes.
- set firmware build release date.
- add ext4 sub-package.
* Fri Jan 6 2023 Gerd Hoffmann - 20221117gitfff6d81270b5-10
- add experimental builds with strict nx checking.
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2167867 - CVE-2023-0286 edk2: openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167867
[ 2 ] Bug #2167889 - CVE-2023-0215 edk2: openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167889
[ 3 ] Bug #2167906 - CVE-2022-4450 edk2: openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167906
[ 4 ] Bug #2167917 - CVE-2022-4304 edk2: openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167917
[ 5 ] Bug #2170730 - Regression: OvmfPkgX64 no longer supports Xen HVM
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170730
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-e821b64a4c' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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