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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38438

MediumCVSS 5.5 / 10
Published Jul 25, 2025·Last modified Jun 15, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

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

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.5

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
5.1

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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