CVE-2023-52994

acpi: Fix suspend with Xen PV

Medium · published March 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

acpi: Fix suspend with Xen PV

Commit f1e525009493 ("x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as

Xen PV guest") missed one code path accessing real_mode_header, leading

to dereferencing NULL when suspending the system under Xen:

[ 348.284004] PM: suspend entry (deep)

[ 348.289532] Filesystems sync: 0.005 seconds

[ 348.291545] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.000 seconds) done.

[ 348.292457] OOM killer disabled.

[ 348.292462] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.104 seconds) done.

[ 348.396612] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)

[ 348.749228] PM: suspend devices took 0.352 seconds

[ 348.769713] ACPI: EC: interrupt blocked

[ 348.816077] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c

[ 348.816080] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

[ 348.816081] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

[ 348.816083] PGD 0 P4D 0

[ 348.816086] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI

[ 348.816089] CPU: 0 PID: 6764 Comm: systemd-sleep Not tainted 6.1.3-1.fc32.qubes.x86_64 #1

[ 348.816092] Hardware name: Star Labs StarBook/StarBook, BIOS 8.01 07/03/2022

[ 348.816093] RIP: e030:acpi_get_wakeup_address+0xc/0x20

Fix that by adding an optional acpi callback allowing to skip setting

the wakeup address, as in the Xen PV case this will be handled by the

hypervisor anyway.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    acpi: Fix suspend with Xen PV
    cvelistv5