CVE-2019-0160 Memory corruption in Extensible Firmware Interface Development Kit (EDK II)

What is CVE-2019-0160?

CVE-2019-0160 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Mar 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via network access.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-0160?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-0160?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-0160 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-0160 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-0160, GHSA-w3xf-7pcp-xvwv, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-0160.