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CVE-2025-38113 (GCVE-0-2025-38113)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:21
VLAI
Title
ACPI: CPPC: Fix NULL pointer dereference when nosmp is used
Summary
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 ]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3cc30dd00a580ca0c9c0b01639841cfd72d10129 , < 356d09c7f5bf525086002a34f8bae40b134d1611 (git)
Affected: 3cc30dd00a580ca0c9c0b01639841cfd72d10129 , < c6dad167aade4bf0bef9130f2f149f4249fc4ad0 (git)
Affected: 3cc30dd00a580ca0c9c0b01639841cfd72d10129 , < 32a48db4cf28ea087214c261da8476db218d08bd (git)
Affected: 3cc30dd00a580ca0c9c0b01639841cfd72d10129 , < 1a677d0ceb4a5d62117b711a8b2e0aee80d33015 (git)
Affected: 3cc30dd00a580ca0c9c0b01639841cfd72d10129 , < 15eece6c5b05e5f9db0711978c3e3b7f1a2cfe12 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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