{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-38344", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.006Z", "datePublished": "2025-07-10T08:15:12.791Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:26:10.671Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:26:10.671Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks\n\nACPICA commit 8829e70e1360c81e7a5a901b5d4f48330e021ea5\n\nI'm Seunghun Han, and I work for National Security Research Institute of\nSouth Korea.\n\nI have been doing a research on ACPI and found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI\nearly abort cases.\n\nBoot log of ACPI cache leak is as follows:\n[ 0.352414] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)\n[ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)\n[ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)\n[ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)\n[ 0.356028] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter\n[ 0.356799] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)\n[ 0.360215] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-State: Slab cache still has objects\n[ 0.360648] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W\n4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #10\n[ 0.361273] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS\nvirtual_box 12/01/2006\n[ 0.361873] Call Trace:\n[ 0.362243] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81\n[ 0.362591] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0\n[ 0.362944] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n[ 0.363296] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10\n[ 0.363646] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b\n[ 0.364000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14\n[ 0.364000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f\n[ 0.364000] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80\n[ 0.364000] ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f\n[ 0.364000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n[ 0.364000] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0\n[ 0.364000] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a\n[ 0.364000] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0\n[ 0.364000] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100\n[ 0.364000] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30\n\nI analyzed this memory leak in detail. I found that “Acpi-State” cache and\n“Acpi-Parse” cache were merged because the size of cache objects was same\nslab cache size.\n\nI finally found “Acpi-Parse” cache and “Acpi-parse_ext” cache were leaked\nusing SLAB_NEVER_MERGE flag in kmem_cache_create() function.\n\nReal ACPI cache leak point is as follows:\n[ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)\n[ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)\n[ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)\n[ 0.361043] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)\n[ 0.364016] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter\n[ 0.365061] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)\n[ 0.368174] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Parse: Slab cache still has objects\n[ 0.369332] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W\n4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8\n[ 0.371256] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS\nvirtual_box 12/01/2006\n[ 0.372000] Call Trace:\n[ 0.372000] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81\n[ 0.372000] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x56/0x7b\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f\n[ 0.372000] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80\n[ 0.372000] ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f\n[ 0.372000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n[ 0.372000] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0\n[ 0.372000] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a\n[ 0.372000] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0\n[ 0.372000] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100\n[ 0.372000] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30\n[ 0.388039] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-parse_ext: Slab cache still has objects\n[ 0.389063] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W\n4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8\n[ 0.390557] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS\nvirtual_box 12/01/2006\n[ 0.392000] Call Trace:\n[ 0.392000] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81\n[ 0.392000] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0\n[ 0.392000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n[ 0.392000] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10\n[ 0.392000] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b\n[ 0.392000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14\n[ 0.392000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x3\n---truncated---" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/acpi/acpica/psobject.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "88ac00f5a841dcfc5c682000f4a6add0add8caac", "lessThan": "1e0e629e88b1f7751ce69bf70cda6d1598d45271", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "88ac00f5a841dcfc5c682000f4a6add0add8caac", "lessThan": "41afebc9a0762aafc35d2df88f4e1b798155a940", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "88ac00f5a841dcfc5c682000f4a6add0add8caac", "lessThan": "960236150cd3f08e13b397dd5ae4ccf7a2986c00", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "88ac00f5a841dcfc5c682000f4a6add0add8caac", "lessThan": "0a119fdaed67566aa3e0b5222dced4d08bbce463", 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