39. Unlimited FV Recursion

Description:

Stack overflow in DxeCore for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.

Impact:

Escalation of Privilege, Information Disclosure and/or Denial of Service

Severity:

High 7.1 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Recommendation:

EDK II commits:

• https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/0a0d5296e448fc350de1594c49b9c0deff7fad60

Acknowledgments:

Intel Team

References:

CVE-2018-12183

EDK II Bugzilla #1126 #1137