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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21872

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 3/27/2025 11:15:54 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b90e7ace79774a3540ce569e000388f8d22c9e0
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46c0454ffb78ce9d3355a3cccac86383ea8ddd55
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f4aebb8127708ba668dd938e83b8558abfc5cd
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97bd560b6cc4c26386a53b4881bf03e96f9ba03a
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea3f0b362dfe4ef885ef812bfaf4088176422c91