CVE-2022-49357
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
26/02/2025
Last modified:
26/02/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs<br />
<br />
On Apple T2 Macs, when Linux attempts to read the db and dbx efi variables<br />
at early boot to load UEFI Secure Boot certificates, a page fault occurs<br />
in Apple firmware code and EFI runtime services are disabled with the<br />
following logs:<br />
<br />
[Firmware Bug]: Page fault caused by firmware at PA: 0xffffb1edc0068000<br />
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 104 at arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c:735 efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault+0x50/0xf0<br />
(Removed some logs from here)<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
page_fault_oops+0x4f/0x2c0<br />
? search_bpf_extables+0x6b/0x80<br />
? search_module_extables+0x50/0x80<br />
? search_exception_tables+0x5b/0x60<br />
kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x9e/0x110<br />
__bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x190<br />
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20<br />
do_kern_addr_fault+0x8c/0xa0<br />
exc_page_fault+0xd8/0x180<br />
asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30<br />
(Removed some logs from here)<br />
? __efi_call+0x28/0x30<br />
? switch_mm+0x20/0x30<br />
? efi_call_rts+0x19a/0x8e0<br />
? process_one_work+0x222/0x3f0<br />
? worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0<br />
? kthread+0x17a/0x1a0<br />
? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0<br />
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40<br />
? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30<br />
<br />
---[ end trace 1f82023595a5927f ]---<br />
efi: Froze efi_rts_wq and disabled EFI Runtime Services<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get size: 0x8000000000000015<br />
integrity: MODSIGN: Couldn&#39;t get UEFI db list<br />
efi: EFI Runtime Services are disabled!<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get size: 0x8000000000000015<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get UEFI dbx list<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get size: 0x8000000000000015<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get mokx list<br />
integrity: Couldn&#39;t get size: 0x80000000<br />
<br />
So we avoid reading these UEFI variables and thus prevent the crash.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/155ca952c7ca19aa32ecfb7373a32bbc2e1ec6eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f7264f0510f519b4e4f575a8f0579ea65e7592e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65237307f88f5200782ae7f243bdd385e37cde5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1cda6dd2c44771f042d65f0d17bec322ef99a0a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34786b25d75f9c119696e6bdf3827f54ae3601b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c072cab98bac11f6ef9db640fb51834d9552e2e6