CVE-2021-47228 Affecting kernel-64kb package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.164.1
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- published25 Jun 2024
- disclosed24 Jun 2024
Introduced: 24 Jun 2024
CVE-2021-47228 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-64kb to version 5.3.18-150300.59.164.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-64kb package and not the kernel-64kb package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/ioremap: Map EFI-reserved memory as encrypted for SEV
Some drivers require memory that is marked as EFI boot services data. In order for this memory to not be re-used by the kernel after ExitBootServices(), efi_mem_reserve() is used to preserve it by inserting a new EFI memory descriptor and marking it with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute.
Under SEV, memory marked with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute needs to be mapped encrypted by Linux, otherwise the kernel might crash at boot like below:
EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3597688770a868b2: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 13 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.4-2-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:efi_mokvar_entry_next [...] Call Trace: efi_mokvar_sysfs_init ? efi_mokvar_table_init do_one_initcall ? __kmalloc kernel_init_freeable ? rest_init kernel_init ret_from_fork
Expand the __ioremap_check_other() function to additionally check for this other type of boot data reserved at runtime and indicate that it should be mapped encrypted for an SEV guest.
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References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47228.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224826
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208bb686e7fa7fff16e8fa78ff0db34aa9acdbd7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d651ee9c71bb12fc0c8eb2786b66cbe5aa3e43b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7a05aba39f733ec337c5b952e112dd2dc4fc404