CVE-2024-38796

Publication date 27 September 2024

Last updated 26 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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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
	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/6249 Upstream: c95233b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low
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