ghsa-rvg6-v4xx-qvv4
Vulnerability from github
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
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-38438"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-07-25T16:15:29Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.\n\nsof_pdata-\u003etplg_filename can have address allocated by kstrdup()\nand can be overwritten. Memory leak was detected with kmemleak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88812391ff60 (size 16):\n comm \"kworker/4:1\", pid 161, jiffies 4294802931\n hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n 73 6f 66 2d 68 64 61 2d 67 65 6e 65 72 69 63 00 sof-hda-generic.\n backtrace (crc 4bf1675c):\n __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x49c/0x6b0\n kstrdup+0x46/0xc0\n hda_machine_select.cold+0x1de/0x12cf [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]\n sof_init_environment+0x16f/0xb50 [snd_sof]\n sof_probe_continue+0x45/0x7c0 [snd_sof]\n sof_probe_work+0x1e/0x40 [snd_sof]\n process_one_work+0x894/0x14b0\n worker_thread+0x5e5/0xfb0\n kthread+0x39d/0x760\n ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30",
"id": "GHSA-rvg6-v4xx-qvv4",
"modified": "2025-07-25T18:30:39Z",
"published": "2025-07-25T18:30:39Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38438"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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