5.5

CVE-2025-38344

ACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks

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

ACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks

ACPICA commit 8829e70e1360c81e7a5a901b5d4f48330e021ea5

I'm Seunghun Han, and I work for National Security Research Institute of
South Korea.

I have been doing a research on ACPI and found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI
early abort cases.

Boot log of ACPI cache leak is as follows:
[    0.352414] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.356028] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.356799] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.360215] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-State: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.360648] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #10
[    0.361273] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.361873] Call Trace:
[    0.362243]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.362591]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.362944]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.363296]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.363646]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.364000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.364000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.364000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.364000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.364000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

I analyzed this memory leak in detail. I found that “Acpi-State” cache and
“Acpi-Parse” cache were merged because the size of cache objects was same
slab cache size.

I finally found “Acpi-Parse” cache and “Acpi-parse_ext” cache were leaked
using SLAB_NEVER_MERGE flag in kmem_cache_create() function.

Real ACPI cache leak point is as follows:
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.361043] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.364016] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.365061] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.368174] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Parse: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.369332] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.371256] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.372000] Call Trace:
[    0.372000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.372000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x56/0x7b
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.372000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.372000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.372000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.372000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
[    0.388039] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-parse_ext: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.389063] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.390557] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.392000] Call Trace:
[    0.392000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.392000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x3
---truncated---
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 5.4.295
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.239
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.186
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.142
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.95
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.35
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.4
Debian ≫ Debian Linux Version11.0
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e0e629e88b1f7751ce69bf70cda6d1598d45271
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41afebc9a0762aafc35d2df88f4e1b798155a940
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/960236150cd3f08e13b397dd5ae4ccf7a2986c00
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a119fdaed67566aa3e0b5222dced4d08bbce463
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fee4324b5660de080cefc3fc91c371543bdb8f6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198c2dab022e5e94a99fff267b669d693bc7bb49
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e0c59180ec83bdec43b3d3482cff23d86d380d0
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed18f0bdcd6737a938264a59d67923688696fc4
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory