Bug 1833347 (CVE-2019-14558)

Summary:	CVE-2019-14558 edk2: potentially leaking of secret information due to uncleared memory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, crobinso, kraxel, lersek, pbonzini, philmd, virt-maint, virt-maint
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Bug Depends On:	1833348, 1833349
Bug Blocks:	1833355

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-08 13:48:36 UTC

An issue was discovered in edk2. Freed memory was not cleared in some cases, potentially leaking secret information.

Reference:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611

Upstream commits:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/764e8ba1389a617639d79d2c4f0d53f4ea4a7387
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/f1d78c489a39971b5aac5d2fc8a39bfa925c3c5d

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-08 13:49:01 UTC

Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1833349]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1833348]

Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2020-05-29 14:21:25 UTC

Marking rhel-7/ovmf and rhel-8/edk2 as notaffected based on https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611#c9 .

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-29 17:20:34 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14558