7.8

CVE-2025-40344: ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-elapsed work when closing PCM

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40344DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40344
Published 09-12-2025Last modified 15-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40344 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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 11 · Related 11
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1SUSE-SU-2026:20228-1SUSE-SU-2026:20564-1USN-8029-1

Timeline

  1. 09-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-elapsed work when closing PCM avs_dai_fe_shutdown() handles the shutdown procedure for HOST HDAudio stream while period-elapsed work services its IRQs. As the former frees the DAI's private context, these two operations shall be synchronized to avoid slab-use-after-free or worse errors.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.17% 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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

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

Ubuntu129 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.8-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00, < ca6d2b7aca778afbf8c0c4b330d10cb228c14052 | ≥ 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00, < b41fca4aa60be896ba8a81b57aac5dcc6eee66c0 | ≥ 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00, < 845f716dc5f354c719f6fda35048b6c2eca99331 | 31087af37d6b1586b76d4acf3e0c1634a4617ba6 | ≥ 6.11.9, < 6.12 | 6.12

3 vendors · 131 products

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