EDK II Firmware memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in EDK II. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Firmware. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-0160. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in EDK II (version now known). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Firmware. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network access.

The bug was discovered 04/08/2019. The weakness was shared 03/27/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at edk2-docs.gitbooks.io. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-0160 since 11/13/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 172171 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ovmf (SUSE-SU-2019:0766-1)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry VDB-132487 is related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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11/13/2018 🔍
03/27/2019 +134 days 🔍
03/28/2019 +1 days 🔍
04/08/2019 +11 days 🔍
08/17/2023 +1592 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2019:2125
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2019-0160 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-0160
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-132509
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/28/2019 11:41
Updated: 08/17/2023 07:10
Changes: 03/28/2019 11:41 (55), 05/22/2020 09:46 (2), 08/17/2023 07:10 (15)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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