Information Exposure Affecting ipxe-bootimgs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-IPXEBOOTIMGS-3146095
  • published23 Nov 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2022

Introduced: 21 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-4087  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 ipxe-bootimgs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ipxe-bootimgs package and not the ipxe-bootimgs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in iPXE. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function tls_new_ciphertext of the file src/net/tls.c of the component TLS. The manipulation of the argument pad_len leads to information exposure through discrepancy. The name of the patch is 186306d6199096b7a7c4b4574d4be8cdb8426729. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-214054 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1