Bug 1883552 (CVE-2021-28210)

Summary: CVE-2021-28210 edk2: unlimited FV recursion, round 2
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: areis, berrange, crobinso, jmaloy, kraxel, lersek, pbonzini, philmd, security-response-team, virt-maint, virt-maint
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A flaw was found in edk2. An unlimited recursion in DxeCore may allow an attacker to corrupt the system memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 12:10:13 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1892354, 1899492, 1899493, 1911023    
Bug Blocks: 1883558    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-09-29 14:38:55 UTC
Reference:
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743

Comment 1 Laszlo Ersek 2020-10-01 08:14:22 UTC
Upstream patch is ready and has been reviewed:

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743#c19
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743#c20

Comment 5 Riccardo Schirone 2020-11-19 12:13:06 UTC
Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1899493]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1899492]

Comment 6 Laszlo Ersek 2020-11-21 01:45:48 UTC
Upstream fix merged as commit range 6c8dd15c4ae4..47343af30435, via <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1137>.