CVE-2022-49357

efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs

On Apple T2 Macs, when Linux attempts to read the db and dbx efi variables

at early boot to load UEFI Secure Boot certificates, a page fault occurs

in Apple firmware code and EFI runtime services are disabled with the

following logs:

[Firmware Bug]: Page fault caused by firmware at PA: 0xffffb1edc0068000

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 104 at arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c:735 efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault+0x50/0xf0

(Removed some logs from here)

Call Trace:

<TASK>

page_fault_oops+0x4f/0x2c0

? search_bpf_extables+0x6b/0x80

? search_module_extables+0x50/0x80

? search_exception_tables+0x5b/0x60

kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x9e/0x110

__bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x190

bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20

do_kern_addr_fault+0x8c/0xa0

exc_page_fault+0xd8/0x180

asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30

(Removed some logs from here)

? __efi_call+0x28/0x30

? switch_mm+0x20/0x30

? efi_call_rts+0x19a/0x8e0

? process_one_work+0x222/0x3f0

? worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0

? kthread+0x17a/0x1a0

? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0

? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40

? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

</TASK>

---[ end trace 1f82023595a5927f ]---

efi: Froze efi_rts_wq and disabled EFI Runtime Services

integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015

integrity: MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list

efi: EFI Runtime Services are disabled!

integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015

integrity: Couldn't get UEFI dbx list

integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015

integrity: Couldn't get mokx list

integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x80000000

So we avoid reading these UEFI variables and thus prevent the crash.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00170 · 6.0th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:11Z
    efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs
    cvelistv5