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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:03:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] MdeModulePkg Variable: Fix Timestamp zeroing issue on
 APPEND_WRITE

Message-id: <20181024190345.15288-2-lersek@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 82887
O-Subject:  [RHEL8 edk2 PATCH 1/4] MdeModulePkg Variable: Fix Timestamp zeroing
	issue on APPEND_WRITE
Bugzilla: 1641436
Acked-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

From: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>

--v-- RHEL8 note start --v--

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1641436

This patch fixes CVE-2018-3613. Unfortunately, the upstream subject line
does not include the CVE number. I've decided to stick with the upstream
subject verbatim in the backport, so we can more easily drop this patch at
the next rebase. On the upstream list, I did complain loudly, so there's
hope the next CVE fix will advertise the CVE number in the subject.

In practice, the vulnerability is difficult to exploit. Please refer to
the following messages in the upstream discussion:

  https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2018-October/031103.html
  https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2018-October/031140.html

--^-- RHEL8 note end --^--

REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415

When SetVariable() to a time based auth variable with APPEND_WRITE
attribute, and if the EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION_2.TimeStamp in
the input Data is earlier than current value, it will cause timestamp
zeroing.

This issue may bring time based auth variable downgrade problem.
For example:
A vendor released three certs at 2014, 2015, and 2016, and system
integrated the 2016 cert. User can SetVariable() with 2015 cert and
APPEND_WRITE attribute to cause timestamp zeroing first, then
SetVariable() with 2014 cert to downgrade the cert.

This patch fixes this issue.

Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Chao Zhang <chao.b.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit b7dc8888f31402f410c53242839271ba3b94b619)
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
 MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/Variable.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/Variable.c b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/Variable.c
index 6caf603..60439b5 100644
--- a/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/Variable.c
+++ b/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/RuntimeDxe/Variable.c
@@ -2460,6 +2460,8 @@ UpdateVariable (
         if (Variable->CurrPtr != NULL) {
           if (VariableCompareTimeStampInternal (&(((AUTHENTICATED_VARIABLE_HEADER *) CacheVariable->CurrPtr)->TimeStamp), TimeStamp)) {
             CopyMem (&AuthVariable->TimeStamp, TimeStamp, sizeof (EFI_TIME));
+          } else {
+            CopyMem (&AuthVariable->TimeStamp, &(((AUTHENTICATED_VARIABLE_HEADER *) CacheVariable->CurrPtr)->TimeStamp), sizeof (EFI_TIME));
           }
         }
       }
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