Issued at: 2026-11-10
Updated at: 2026-11-14
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:96240, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Critical: edk2 security update
Description
EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.
Security Fix(es):
* edk2: Pre-boot RCE in EDK II PXE driver (CVE-2026-97631)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.