{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"moderate"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2025-38296","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPI: platform_profile: Avoid initializing on non-ACPI platforms\n\nThe platform profile driver is loaded even on platforms that do not have\nACPI enabled. The initialization of the sysfs entries was recently moved\nfrom platform_profile_register() to the module init call, and those\nentries need acpi_kobj to be initialized which is not the case when ACPI\nis disabled.\n\nThis results in the following warning:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:131 internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W           6.15.0-rc7-dirty #6 PREEMPT\n Tainted: [W]=WARN\n Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n epc : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n  ra : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n\n Call Trace:\n\n internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8\n sysfs_create_group+0x22/0x2e\n platform_profile_init+0x74/0xb2\n do_one_initcall+0x198/0xa9e\n kernel_init_freeable+0x6d8/0x780\n kernel_init+0x28/0x24c\n ret_from_fork+0xe/0x18\n\nFix this by checking if ACPI is enabled before trying to create sysfs\nentries.\n\n[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2025-38296","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38296"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1253077 for CVE-2025-38296","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253077"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2025-38296","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-11-06T00:27:37Z","generator":{"date":"2025-07-10T23:23:07Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2025-38296","initial_release_date":"2025-07-10T23:23:07Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2025-07-10T23:23:07Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-12T23:22:38Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-11-06T00:27:37Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"4"}}}