CVE-2025-21872 Affecting kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra package, versions *
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- published1 Apr 2025
- disclosed27 Mar 2025
Introduced: 27 Mar 2025
CVE-2025-21872 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra package and not the kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21872
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b90e7ace79774a3540ce569e000388f8d22c9e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46c0454ffb78ce9d3355a3cccac86383ea8ddd55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f4aebb8127708ba668dd938e83b8558abfc5cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97bd560b6cc4c26386a53b4881bf03e96f9ba03a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea3f0b362dfe4ef885ef812bfaf4088176422c91