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FKIE_CVE-2025-38386

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-25 13:15 - Updated: 2026-10-15 22:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing As reported in [1], a platform firmware update that increased the number of method parameters and forgot to update a least one of its callers, caused ACPICA to crash due to use-after-free. Since this a result of a clear AML issue that arguably cannot be fixed up by the interpreter (it cannot produce missing data out of thin air), address it by making ACPICA refuse to evaluate a method if the caller attempts to pass fewer arguments than expected to it.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18ff4ed6a33a7e3f2097710eacc96bea7696e803	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2219e49857ffd6aea1b1ca5214d3270f84623a16	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4305d936abde795c2ef6ba916de8f00a50f64d2d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fcab2791543924d438e7fa49276d0998b0a069f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1e8491c19eb2ea0fda81ef28e841c7cb6399f5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b49d224d1830c46e20adce2a239c454cdab426f1	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9e4da550ae196132b990bd77ed3d8f2d9747f87	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d547779e72cea9865b732cd45393c4cd02b3598e	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-38386 (GCVE-0-2025-38386)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 12:53 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:52

Title

ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:49 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6653 records in the last 180 days details

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b49d224d1830c46e2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2219e49857ffd6aea…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1e8491c19eb2ea0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4305d936abde795c2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d547779e72cea9865…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18ff4ed6a33a7e3f2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9e4da550ae196132…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fcab2791543924d4…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b49d224d1830c46e20adce2a239c454cdab426f1 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 2219e49857ffd6aea1b1ca5214d3270f84623a16 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ab1e8491c19eb2ea0fda81ef28e841c7cb6399f5 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 4305d936abde795c2ef6ba916de8f00a50f64d2d (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d547779e72cea9865b732cd45393c4cd02b3598e (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 18ff4ed6a33a7e3f2097710eacc96bea7696e803 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c9e4da550ae196132b990bd77ed3d8f2d9747f87 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6fcab2791543924d438e7fa49276d0998b0a069f (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.296 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.240 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.187 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.144 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.97 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.37 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.6 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Sightings

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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

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