CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38113
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: CPPC: Fix NULL pointer dereference when nosmp is used
With nosmp in cmdline, other CPUs are not brought up, leaving
their cpc_desc_ptr NULL. CPU0's iteration via for_each_possible_cpu()
dereferences these NULL pointers, causing panic.
Panic backtrace:
[ 0.401123] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000b8
...
[ 0.403255] [<ffffffff809a5818>] cppc_allow_fast_switch+0x6a/0xd4
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ rjw: New subject ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15eece6c5b05e5f9db0711978c3e3b7f1a2cfe12 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a677d0ceb4a5d62117b711a8b2e0aee80d33015 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32a48db4cf28ea087214c261da8476db218d08bd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/356d09c7f5bf525086002a34f8bae40b134d1611 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6dad167aade4bf0bef9130f2f149f4249fc4ad0 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory