acpi: Don't register the acpi command when locked down

The command is not allowed when lockdown is enforced. Otherwise an
attacker can instruct the GRUB to load an SSDT table to overwrite
the kernel lockdown configuration and later load and execute
unsigned code.

Fixes: CVE-2020-14372
Reported-by: Máté Kukri <km@mkukri.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index c3e015d4f56704a1baa85c161ad0985fbf569864..4ce31c2d47a024b7a57903db5082124291e0bcc1 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/grub.texi
+++ b/docs/grub.texi
@@ -4074,6 +4074,11 @@ Normally, this command will replace the Root System Description Pointer
 (RSDP) in the Extended BIOS Data Area to point to the new tables. If the
 @option{--no-ebda} option is used, the new tables will be known only to
 GRUB, but may be used by GRUB's EFI emulation.
+
+Note: The command is not allowed when lockdown is enforced (@pxref{Lockdown}).
+      Otherwise an attacker can instruct the GRUB to load an SSDT table to
+      overwrite the kernel lockdown configuration and later load and execute
+      unsigned code.
 @end deffn
 
 

diff --git a/grub-core/commands/acpi.c b/grub-core/commands/acpi.c
index 5a1499aa0e30ef7b5a683fea603bb2cd3bf30b49..1215f2a62efb6b4d1bec33e5d9833a253812c665 100644 (file)
--- a/grub-core/commands/acpi.c
+++ b/grub-core/commands/acpi.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <grub/mm.h>
 #include <grub/memory.h>
 #include <grub/i18n.h>
+#include <grub/lockdown.h>
 
 #ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_EFI
 #include <grub/efi/efi.h>
@@ -775,13 +776,13 @@ static grub_extcmd_t cmd;
 
 GRUB_MOD_INIT(acpi)
 {
-  cmd = grub_register_extcmd ("acpi", grub_cmd_acpi, 0,
-                             N_("[-1|-2] [--exclude=TABLE1,TABLE2|"
-                             "--load-only=TABLE1,TABLE2] FILE1"
-                             " [FILE2] [...]"),
-                             N_("Load host ACPI tables and tables "
-                             "specified by arguments."),
-                             options);
+  cmd = grub_register_extcmd_lockdown ("acpi", grub_cmd_acpi, 0,
+                                       N_("[-1|-2] [--exclude=TABLE1,TABLE2|"
+                                          "--load-only=TABLE1,TABLE2] FILE1"
+                                          " [FILE2] [...]"),
+                                       N_("Load host ACPI tables and tables "
+                                          "specified by arguments."),
+                                       options);
 }
 
 GRUB_MOD_FINI(acpi)