5.5

CVE-2025-38438: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38438DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38438
Published 25-07-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38438 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.19%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 11
DSA-5975-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1RHSA-2025:20095RHSA-2025:20518SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1

Timeline

  1. 25-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability 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

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.02 pp

From 0.16% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu150 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f | ≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a | ≥ dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4, < 6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e | 5.2
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.2, < 6.12.39 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.7 | 6.16:rc1 | 6.16:rc2 | 6.16:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.41-1 | < 6.16.3-1

3 vendors · 153 products

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