Bug 2357135 (CVE-2025-21998) - CVE-2025-21998 kernel: firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race
Summary: CVE-2025-21998 kernel: firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21998
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-04-03 08:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-03 09:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-03 08:01:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race

Since the conversion to using the TZ allocator, the efivars service is
registered before the memory pool has been allocated, something which
can lead to a NULL-pointer dereference in case of a racing EFI variable
access.

Make sure that all resources have been set up before registering the
efivars.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-03 09:50:47 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025040348-CVE-2025-21998-b57d@gregkh/T


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