CVE-2024-38798

Published: December 12, 2025Last modified: December 17, 2025

Description

EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to possible information disclosure or escalation of privilege and impact Confidentiality.

Status

Product	Release	Package	Status
Alpaquita Linux	23 LTS	edk2	Fixed (0.0.202508-r1)
	25 LTS	edk2	Fixed (0.0.202508-r1)
	Stream	edk2	Fixed (0.0.202511-r0)

References

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-q2c6-37h5-7cwf

How to Fix Liberica NIK Not Starting on macOS Catalina and Later

If you use macOS Catalina and later you may encounter the issue that prevents Liberica NIK from starting. To fix it, run the following:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/graalvm/folder/

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