CVE-2024-38796

Publication date 27 September 2024

Last updated 26 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

EDK2 contains a vulnerability in the PeCoffLoaderRelocateImage(). An Attacker may cause memory corruption due to an overflow via an adjacent network. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Confidentiality, Integrity, and/or Availability.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 26.10 stonking
Not affected
26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed in 2024.02-2ubuntu0.6
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
edk2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.9 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7894-1
    • EDK II vulnerabilities
    • 26 November 2025

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