CVE-2024-49858 Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49858
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11690d7e76842f29b60fbb5b35bc97d206ea0e83
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19fd2f2c5fb36b61506d3208474bfd8fdf1cada3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e6871a632a99d9b9e2ce3a7847acabe99e5a26e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38d9b07d99b789efb6d8dda21f1aaad636c38993
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b22c038fb2757c652642933de5664da471f8cb7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d48d39e99170b528e4f2e9fc5d1d64cdedd386
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76b69ab9cf04358266e3cea5748c0c2791fbb08