Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-69491.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-69491
Upstream
Published
2025-03-27T15:15:54Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:21:34.516578Z
Summary
CVE-2025-21872 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1
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/early_ioremap.c:139 __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? __early_ioremap+0xef/0x220 ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xfa ? __earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ? reportbug+0xff/0x140 ? earlyfixupexception+0x5d/0xb0 ? earlyidthandler_common+0x2f/0x3a ? __earlyioremap+0xef/0x220 ? efimokvartableinit+0xce/0x1d0 ? setuparch+0x864/0xc10 ? startkernel+0x6b/0xa10 ? x8664startreservations+0x24/0x30 ? x8664startkernel+0xed/0xf0 ? commonstartup64+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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
5.15.200.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-69491.json"