An issue was discovered in drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.7. Injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and secure boot restrictions, aka CID-75b0cea7bf30.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15780
Reference (s):
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.7.7
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75b0cea7bf307f362057cc778efe89af4c615354
- https://git.zx2c4.com/american-unsigned-language/tree/american-unsigned-language-2.sh
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/06/15/3
- MLIST:[oss-security] 20200720 Re: Re: lockdown bypass on mainline kernel for loading unsigned modules