CVE-2025-38113
Essential information
- Published
- 03/07/2025 09:15
- Modified
- 03/07/2025 15:13
- Author
- —
- Creator
- —
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- —
- CVSS vector
- — — —
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 ]
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| linux / kernel | cpe:2.3:a:linux:kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |