CVE-2023-52994
kernel: acpi: Fix suspend with Xen PV
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · March 27, 2025
Updated · July 22, 2026
Description
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.
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference