CVE-2025-21872

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21872
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21872.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21872
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T14:57:04.206Z
Modified
2025-11-27T02:32:35.156159Z
Summary
efi: Don't map the entire mokvar table to determine its size
Details

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/earlyioremap.c:139 _earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? _earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ? _warn.cold+0x93/0xfa ? _earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ? reportbug+0xff/0x140 ? earlyfixupexception+0x5d/0xb0 ? earlyidthandlercommon+0x2f/0x3a ? _earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ? efimokvartableinit+0xce/0x1d0 ? setuparch+0x864/0xc10 ? startkernel+0x6b/0xa10 ? x8664startreservations+0x24/0x30 ? x8664startkernel+0xed/0xf0 ? commonstartup_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 efimokvartable_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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/cc431b3424123d84bcd7afd4de150b33f117a8ef/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21872.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5
Fixed
46c0454ffb78ce9d3355a3cccac86383ea8ddd55
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5
Fixed
ea3f0b362dfe4ef885ef812bfaf4088176422c91
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5
Fixed
65f4aebb8127708ba668dd938e83b8558abfc5cd
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5
Fixed
97bd560b6cc4c26386a53b4881bf03e96f9ba03a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5
Fixed
2b90e7ace79774a3540ce569e000388f8d22c9e0

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.10.0
Fixed
5.10.235
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
6.6.83
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.18
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.6