| Name | CVE-2025-3770 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1110533 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| edk2 (PTS) | bullseye | 2020.11-2+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2020.11-2+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2022.11-6+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2022.11-6+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2025.02-8 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 2025.02-9 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| edk2 | source | (unstable) | 2025.02-9 | | | 1110533 |
Notes
[trixie] - edk2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - edk2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - edk2 <postponed> (minor; likely a concern only on real hardware; used on S3 handling on qemu)
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-vx5v-4gg6-6qxr
only arch: amd64, other arch (particularly i386) are not affected