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Red Hat: CVE-2024-1298: edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-1298: edk2: Temporary DoS vulnerability (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/30/2024
Created
07/24/2024
Added
07/24/2024
Modified
07/24/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-edk2-aarch64
  • redhat-upgrade-edk2-ovmf

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