Bug 797232 – <sys-firmware/edk2-202105: privilege escalation with local access (CVE-2019-14584)

• Status: IN_PROGRESS
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description John Helmert III 2021-06-20 23:20:35 UTC]

CVE-2019-14584 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889486):

Null pointer dereference in Tianocore EDK2 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.


Patch (in 202105): https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/26442d11e620a9e81c019a24a4ff38441c64ba10

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2021-06-26 22:23:57 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=944a1bda9e2a0614e3a176588bb57477813e43dd

commit 944a1bda9e2a0614e3a176588bb57477813e43dd
Author:     Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2021-06-26 22:16:40 +0000
Commit:     Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2021-06-26 22:23:52 +0000

    sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf: version bump to 202105
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797703
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797232
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/798777
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.20, Repoman-3.0.3
    Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>

 sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf/Manifest                |   3 +
 sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf/edk2-ovmf-202105.ebuild | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 176 insertions(+)

[Comment 2 Matthias Maier 2021-06-26 22:27:06 UTC]

202105 is now in tree. Let's postpone stabiliziation and cleanup for a bit to get some testing in.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

[Comment 10 Sam James 2021-08-10 04:45:18 UTC]

Throwing in QEMU because it needs the same firmware.

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Unable to check for sanity:

> no match for package: app-emulation/qemu-6.0.0-r52

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All sanity-check issues have been resolved

[Comment 13 NATTkA bot 2021-09-20 20:36:39 UTC]

Resetting sanity check; package list is empty or all packages are done.

[Comment 14 John Helmert III 2021-10-09 19:51:14 UTC]

Please cleanup.

[Comment 15 Larry the Git Cow 2022-01-04 00:02:15 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dee51fb9e273c98d521b6d7083030f89d8c13ad5

commit dee51fb9e273c98d521b6d7083030f89d8c13ad5
Author:     Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2022-01-03 23:51:34 +0000
Commit:     Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2022-01-04 00:02:11 +0000

    sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf: clean up vulnerable
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797232
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/797703
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.30, Repoman-3.0.3
    Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <[e-mail]>

 sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf/Manifest                |   3 -
 sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf/edk2-ovmf-202008.ebuild | 186 -------------------------
 2 files changed, 189 deletions(-)

[Comment 16 James Le Cuirot 2024-10-10 16:36:36 UTC]

Package has been renamed to sys-firmware/edk2.