CVE-2021-47228

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.10.46 and 5.12.13 - Denial of Service via EFI Memory Mapping

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/ioremap: Map EFI-reserved memory as encrypted for SEV Some drivers require memory that is marked as EFI boot services data. In order for this memory to not be re-used by the kernel after ExitBootServices(), efi_mem_reserve() is used to preserve it by inserting a new EFI memory descriptor and marking it with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute. Under SEV, memory marked with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute needs to be mapped encrypted by Linux, otherwise the kernel might crash at boot like below: EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3597688770a868b2: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 13 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.4-2-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:efi_mokvar_entry_next [...] Call Trace: efi_mokvar_sysfs_init ? efi_mokvar_table_init do_one_initcall ? __kmalloc kernel_init_freeable ? rest_init kernel_init ret_from_fork Expand the __ioremap_check_other() function to additionally check for this other type of boot data reserved at runtime and indicate that it should be mapped encrypted for an SEV guest. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.46 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.13 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - 208bb686e7fa7fff16e8fa78ff0db34aa9acdbd7
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - 8d651ee9c71bb12fc0c8eb2786b66cbe5aa3e43b
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - b7a05aba39f733ec337c5b952e112dd2dc4fc404
linux/linux_kernel 5.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.10 - 5.10.46
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026