Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2975
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-19
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-19
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause "Protection Mechanism Failure" by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to arbitrary code execution and impact Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. (CVE-2025-3770)
Affected Packages:
edk2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update edk2 or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2975 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
edk2-tools-20240813-302.amzn2.aarch64
edk2-debuginfo-20240813-302.amzn2.aarch64
noarch:
edk2-ovmf-20240813-302.amzn2.noarch
edk2-tools-doc-20240813-302.amzn2.noarch
edk2-aarch64-20240813-302.amzn2.noarch
src:
edk2-20240813-302.amzn2.src
x86_64:
edk2-tools-20240813-302.amzn2.x86_64
edk2-debuginfo-20240813-302.amzn2.x86_64