CVE-2025-21872

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.10.234, 5.11-6.6.82, 6.7-6.12.17, 6.13-6.13.5 - Denial of Service via EFI MOK Variable Table Mapping

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.10.0 - 5.10.235linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 6.6.83linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.18linux
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - 2b90e7ace79774a3540ce569e000388f8d22c9e0
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - 46c0454ffb78ce9d3355a3cccac86383ea8ddd55
Linux/Linux 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - 65f4aebb8127708ba668dd938e83b8558abfc5cd
... and 8 more
Published Mar 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026