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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38345" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T08:15:13.652Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:26:11.824Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38345" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38345.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38345" title: "ACPICA: fix acpi operand cache leak in dswstate.c" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPICA: fix acpi operand cache leak in dswstate.c\n\nACPICA commit 987a3b5cf7175916e2a4b6ea5b8e70f830dfe732\n\nI found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI early termination and boot continuing case.\n\nWhen early termination occurs due to malicious ACPI table, Linux kernel\nterminates ACPI function and continues to boot process. While kernel terminates\nACPI function, kmem_cache_destroy() reports Acpi-Operand cache leak.\n\nBoot log of ACPI operand cache leak is as follows:\n\u003e[ 0.585957] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)\n\u003e[ 0.587218] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)\n\u003e[ 0.588530] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)\n\u003e[ 0.589790] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)\n\u003e[ 0.591534] ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: C806E00000004002/0x2 (20170303/hwvalid-155)\n\u003e[ 0.594351] ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, Unable to initialize fixed events (20170303/evevent-88)\n\u003e[ 0.597858] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter\n\u003e[ 0.599162] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)\n\u003e[ 0.601836] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Operand: Slab cache still has objects\n\u003e[ 0.603556] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5 #26\n\u003e[ 0.605159] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS virtual_box 12/01/2006\n\u003e[ 0.609177] Call Trace:\n\u003e[ 0.610063] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81\n\u003e[ 0.611118] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0\n\u003e[ 0.612632] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n\u003e[ 0.613906] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10\n\u003e[ 0.617986] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x3f/0x7b\n\u003e[ 0.619293] ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14\n\u003e[ 0.620394] ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f\n\u003e[ 0.621616] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80\n\u003e[ 0.623412] ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f\n\u003e[ 0.624585] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27\n\u003e[ 0.625861] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0\n\u003e[ 0.627513] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x19e/0x21f\n\u003e[ 0.628972] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80\n\u003e[ 0.630043] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100\n\u003e[ 0.631084] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30\n\u003e[ 0.633343] vgaarb: loaded\n\u003e[ 0.635036] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0\n\u003e[ 0.638601] PCI: Probing PCI hardware\n\u003e[ 0.639833] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00\n\u003e[ 0.641031] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff]\n\u003e ... Continue to boot and log is omitted ...\n\nI analyzed this memory leak in detail and found acpi_ds_obj_stack_pop_and_\ndelete() function miscalculated the top of the stack. acpi_ds_obj_stack_push()\nfunction uses walk_state-\u003eoperand_index for start position of the top, but\nacpi_ds_obj_stack_pop_and_delete() function considers index 0 for it.\nTherefore, this causes acpi operand memory leak.\n\nThis cache leak causes a security threat because an old kernel (\u003c= 4.9) shows\nmemory locations of kernel functions in stack dump. Some malicious users\ncould use this information to neutralize kernel ASLR.\n\nI made a patch to fix ACPI operand cache leak." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fa430a8bca708c7776f6b9d001257f48b19a5b7"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c0d9115a001979cb446ba5e8331dd1d29a10bbf"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a68893b594ee6ce0efce5f74c07e64e9dd0c2c4"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64c4bcf0308dd1d752ef31d560040b8725e29984"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"755a8006b76792922ff7b1c9674d8897a476b5d7"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76d37168155880f2b04a0aad92ceb0f9d799950e"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0783910ca4368b01466bc8dcdcc13c3e0b7db53"},{"version":"773069d48030e670cf2032a13ddf16a2e0034df3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"156fd20a41e776bbf334bd5e45c4f78dfc90ce1c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.26","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.26"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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