Bug 2355401 (CVE-2025-21872) - CVE-2025-21872 kernel: efi: Don't map the entire mokvar table to determine its size
Summary: CVE-2025-21872 kernel: efi: Don't map the entire mokvar table to determine it...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21872
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-03-27 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-01 04:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 16:01:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: Don't map the entire mokvar table to determine its size

Currently, when validating the mokvar table, we (re)map the entire table
on each iteration of the loop, adding space as we discover new entries.
If the table grows over a certain size, this fails due to limitations of
early_memmap(), and we get a failure and traceback:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/early_ioremap.c:139 __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ? __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220
   ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xfa
   ? __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220
   ? report_bug+0xff/0x140
   ? early_fixup_exception+0x5d/0xb0
   ? early_idt_handler_common+0x2f/0x3a
   ? __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220
   ? efi_mokvar_table_init+0xce/0x1d0
   ? setup_arch+0x864/0xc10
   ? start_kernel+0x6b/0xa10
   ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x30
   ? x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf0
   ? common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  mokvar: Failed to map EFI MOKvar config table pa=0x7c4c3000, size=265187.

Mapping the entire structure isn't actually necessary, as we don't ever
need more than one entry header mapped at once.

Changes efi_mokvar_table_init() to only map each entry header, not the
entire table, when determining the table size.  Since we're not mapping
any data past the variable name, it also changes the code to enforce
that each variable name is NUL terminated, rather than attempting to
verify it in place.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-03-28 06:46:14 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032709-CVE-2025-21872-574e@gregkh/T


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