CVE-2024-35803

Technical Description

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

x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack

Normally, the EFI stub calls into the EFI boot services using the stack

that was live when the stub was entered. According to the UEFI spec,

this stack needs to be at least 128k in size - this might seem large but

all asynchronous processing and event handling in EFI runs from the same

stack and so quite a lot of space may be used in practice.

In mixed mode, the situation is a bit different: the bootloader calls

the 32-bit EFI stub entry point, which calls the decompressor's 32-bit

entry point, where the boot stack is set up, using a fixed allocation

of 16k. This stack is still in use when the EFI stub is started in

64-bit mode, and so all calls back into the EFI firmware will be using

the decompressor's limited boot stack.

Due to the placement of the boot stack right after the boot heap, any

stack overruns have gone unnoticed. However, commit

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References