{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "88ac00f5a841dcfc5c682000f4a6add0add8caac"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1e0e629e88b1f7751ce69bf70cda6d1598d45271"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "41afebc9a0762aafc35d2df88f4e1b798155a940"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "960236150cd3f08e13b397dd5ae4ccf7a2986c00"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0a119fdaed67566aa3e0b5222dced4d08bbce463"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1fee4324b5660de080cefc3fc91c371543bdb8f6"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "198c2dab022e5e94a99fff267b669d693bc7bb49"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3e0c59180ec83bdec43b3d3482cff23d86d380d0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "bed18f0bdcd6737a938264a59d67923688696fc4"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38344.json"
  },
  "details": "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---",
  "id": "CVE-2025-38344",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T23:07:59.293290315Z",
  "published": "2025-07-10T08:15:12.791Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a119fdaed67566aa3e0b5222dced4d08bbce463"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/198c2dab022e5e94a99fff267b669d693bc7bb49"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e0e629e88b1f7751ce69bf70cda6d1598d45271"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fee4324b5660de080cefc3fc91c371543bdb8f6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e0c59180ec83bdec43b3d3482cff23d86d380d0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41afebc9a0762aafc35d2df88f4e1b798155a940"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/960236150cd3f08e13b397dd5ae4ccf7a2986c00"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed18f0bdcd6737a938264a59d67923688696fc4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38344.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38344"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "summary": "ACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks"
}