CVE-2025-21872

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

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before 46c0454ffb78ce9d3355a3cccac86383ea8ddd55Affected
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before f17a72ac7dd6f9469c9e6185bdbb22dbb744dd74Affected
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before ea3f0b362dfe4ef885ef812bfaf4088176422c91Affected
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before 65f4aebb8127708ba668dd938e83b8558abfc5cdAffected
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before 97bd560b6cc4c26386a53b4881bf03e96f9ba03aAffected
  • 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 to before 2b90e7ace79774a3540ce569e000388f8d22c9e0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.10.235 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.83 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.18 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.6 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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