CVE-2025-38296

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.14-6.15.3 - Denial of Service via ACPI Platform Profile Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: platform_profile: Avoid initializing on non-ACPI platforms The platform profile driver is loaded even on platforms that do not have ACPI enabled. The initialization of the sysfs entries was recently moved from platform_profile_register() to the module init call, and those entries need acpi_kobj to be initialized which is not the case when ACPI is disabled. This results in the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:131 internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8 Modules linked in: CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.15.0-rc7-dirty #6 PREEMPT Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) epc : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8 ra : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8 Call Trace: internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8 sysfs_create_group+0x22/0x2e platform_profile_init+0x74/0xb2 do_one_initcall+0x198/0xa9e kernel_init_freeable+0x6d8/0x780 kernel_init+0x28/0x24c ret_from_fork+0xe/0x18 Fix this by checking if ACPI is enabled before trying to create sysfs entries. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.15.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.15.3 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 77be5cacb2c2d8c3ddd069f0b4e9408f553af1d8 - ccc3d68b92be89c30ba42ac62d2a141bd0c2b457
Linux/Linux 77be5cacb2c2d8c3ddd069f0b4e9408f553af1d8 - dd133162c9cff5951a692fab9811fadf46a46457
linux/linux_kernel 6.14 - 6.15.3
Published Jul 10, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026