CVE-2018-12179

Name	CVE-2018-12179
Description	Improper configuration in system firmware for EDK II may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: local)
Debian Bugs	927484

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
edk2 (PTS)	jessie/non-free	0~20131112.2590861a-3	vulnerable
	stretch	0~20161202.7bbe0b3e-1+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster	0~20181115.85588389-3	vulnerable
	bullseye, sid	0~20190828.37eef910-3	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
edk2	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant		927484

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133
OpalPassword code is not enabled in Debian images