CVE-2024-1298

Publication date 30 May 2024

Last updated 26 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

EDK2 contains a vulnerability when S3 sleep is activated where an Attacker may cause a Division-By-Zero due to a UNIT32 overflow via local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Availability.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
edk2	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 2024.02-2ubuntu0.6
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 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	Upstream: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/5659 Upstream: 284dbac

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7894-1
EDK II vulnerabilities
26 November 2025