CVE-2025-38438

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

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

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4 < 68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f
Linux Linux dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4 < 58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a
Linux Linux dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4 < 6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e
Linux Linux 5.2
linux linux_kernel 5.2 – 6.12.39
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001870
Percentile 8.3%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00187
2026-11-13
0.00187
2026-11-12
0.00187
2026-11-10
0.00187
2026-11-09
0.00187
2026-11-08
0.00187
2026-11-07
0.00187
2026-11-06
0.00187
2026-11-05
0.00187

Intelligence Sources

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