CVE-2024-49858

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Memory Corruption via TPM Event Log Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efistub/tpm: Use ACPI reclaim memory for event log to avoid corruption The TPM event log table is a Linux specific construct, where the data produced by the GetEventLog() boot service is cached in memory, and passed on to the OS using an EFI configuration table. The use of EFI_LOADER_DATA here results in the region being left unreserved in the E820 memory map constructed by the EFI stub, and this is the memory description that is passed on to the incoming kernel by kexec, which is therefore unaware that the region should be reserved. Even though the utility of the TPM2 event log after a kexec is questionable, any corruption might send the parsing code off into the weeds and crash the kernel. So let's use EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY instead, which is always treated as reserved by the E820 conversion logic.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 4.16.0 - 5.10.227linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.168linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.113linux
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.11.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.54linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.13linux
Linux/Linux < 4.16
Linux/Linux 33b6d03469b2206fb51ecc37f40411a857ad8fff - 11690d7e76842f29b60fbb5b35bc97d206ea0e83
Linux/Linux 33b6d03469b2206fb51ecc37f40411a857ad8fff - 19fd2f2c5fb36b61506d3208474bfd8fdf1cada3
Linux/Linux 33b6d03469b2206fb51ecc37f40411a857ad8fff - 2e6871a632a99d9b9e2ce3a7847acabe99e5a26e
... and 13 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026