{
  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2025-38438",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-38438"
  ],
  "published": "2025-07-25T15:35:02Z",
  "summary": "ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.",
  "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->tplg_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",
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
      ],
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-2712",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v6",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7l",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v8",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "database_specific": {
        "per_version": {
          "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4": {
            "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e",
            "upstream_version": "6.1.47",
            "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)",
            "upstream_fixed": null,
            "compiled_filter": false
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38438"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-05-12T04:54:46Z"
  }
}