Bug 1694072 (CVE-2018-12179)

Summary: CVE-2018-12179 edk2: improper configuration insystem firmware leads to privilege escalation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: berrange, bmcclain, crobinso, dblechte, dfediuck, eedri, kraxel, lersek, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, pbonzini, philmd, sbonazzo, sherold, virt-maint, virt-maint, yturgema
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Bug Depends On: 1694086, 1694085    
Bug Blocks: 1694083    

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 12:51:06 UTC
Improper configuration in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.

Reference:
https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/opal-blocksid-setting-disabled-after-s3.html

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:35:10 UTC
Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1694085]

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:36:02 UTC
Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1694086]

Comment 3 Laszlo Ersek 2019-04-01 16:24:04 UTC
Can you please work with the TianoCore Bugzilla InfoSec group to open up the upstream ticket to the public? Thank you.

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2019-04-08 15:36:34 UTC
Upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133

Patch proposed in upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/attachment.cgi?id=210