CVE-2025-38344

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> ACPICA: fix acpi parse and parseext cache leaks<br /> <br /> ACPICA commit 8829e70e1360c81e7a5a901b5d4f48330e021ea5<br /> <br /> I&amp;#39;m Seunghun Han, and I work for National Security Research Institute of<br /> South Korea.<br /> <br /> I have been doing a research on ACPI and found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI<br /> early abort cases.<br /> <br /> Boot log of ACPI cache leak is as follows:<br /> [ 0.352414] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)<br /> [ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)<br /> [ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)<br /> [ 0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)<br /> [ 0.356028] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter<br /> [ 0.356799] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)<br /> [ 0.360215] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-State: Slab cache still has objects<br /> [ 0.360648] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W<br /> 4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #10<br /> [ 0.361273] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS<br /> virtual_box 12/01/2006<br /> [ 0.361873] Call Trace:<br /> [ 0.362243] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81<br /> [ 0.362591] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0<br /> [ 0.362944] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27<br /> [ 0.363296] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10<br /> [ 0.363646] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b<br /> [ 0.364000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14<br /> [ 0.364000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f<br /> [ 0.364000] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80<br /> [ 0.364000] ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f<br /> [ 0.364000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27<br /> [ 0.364000] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0<br /> [ 0.364000] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a<br /> [ 0.364000] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0<br /> [ 0.364000] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100<br /> [ 0.364000] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30<br /> <br /> I analyzed this memory leak in detail. I found that “Acpi-State” cache and<br /> “Acpi-Parse” cache were merged because the size of cache objects was same<br /> slab cache size.<br /> <br /> I finally found “Acpi-Parse” cache and “Acpi-parse_ext” cache were leaked<br /> using SLAB_NEVER_MERGE flag in kmem_cache_create() function.<br /> <br /> Real ACPI cache leak point is as follows:<br /> [ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)<br /> [ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)<br /> [ 0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)<br /> [ 0.361043] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)<br /> [ 0.364016] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter<br /> [ 0.365061] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)<br /> [ 0.368174] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Parse: Slab cache still has objects<br /> [ 0.369332] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W<br /> 4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8<br /> [ 0.371256] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS<br /> virtual_box 12/01/2006<br /> [ 0.372000] Call Trace:<br /> [ 0.372000] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81<br /> [ 0.372000] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x56/0x7b<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f<br /> [ 0.372000] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80<br /> [ 0.372000] ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f<br /> [ 0.372000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27<br /> [ 0.372000] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0<br /> [ 0.372000] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a<br /> [ 0.372000] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0<br /> [ 0.372000] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100<br /> [ 0.372000] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30<br /> [ 0.388039] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-parse_ext: Slab cache still has objects<br /> [ 0.389063] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W<br /> 4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8<br /> [ 0.390557] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS<br /> virtual_box 12/01/2006<br /> [ 0.392000] Call Trace:<br /> [ 0.392000] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81<br /> [ 0.392000] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0<br /> [ 0.392000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27<br /> [ 0.392000] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10<br /> [ 0.392000] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b<br /> [ 0.392000] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14<br /> [ 0.392000] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x3<br /> ---truncated---