CVE-2025-38438

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Analyzed
Published: 25 Jul 2025, 15:27
Last modified:11 May 2026, 21:27

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.05% LOW
0% probability +0.04%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

25 Jul 2025, 15:27
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 21:27
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak. sof_pdata->tplg_filename can have address allocated by kstrdup() and can be overwritten. Memory leak was detected with kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88812391ff60 (size 16): comm "kworker/4:1", pid 161, jiffies 4294802931 hex dump (first 16 bytes): 73 6f 66 2d 68 64 61 2d 67 65 6e 65 72 69 63 00 sof-hda-generic. backtrace (crc 4bf1675c): __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x49c/0x6b0 kstrdup+0x46/0xc0 hda_machine_select.cold+0x1de/0x12cf [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic] sof_init_environment+0x16f/0xb50 [snd_sof] sof_probe_continue+0x45/0x7c0 [snd_sof] sof_probe_work+0x1e/0x40 [snd_sof] process_one_work+0x894/0x14b0 worker_thread+0x5e5/0xfb0 kthread+0x39d/0x760 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.05%• Percentile: 16%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-401•Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

    The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux

    ≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f | ≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a | ≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e | 5.2

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 5.2, < 6.12.39 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.7 | 6.16:rc1 | 6.16:rc2 | 6.16:rc3

References (3)