Name | CVE-2021-38576 |
Description | A BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 1014468 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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edk2 (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2020.11-2+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2022.11-6+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2024.11-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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edk2 | source | (unstable) | 2021.11-1 | | | 1014468 |
Notes
[bullseye] - edk2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - edk2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3499