{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2025-07-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.",
    "id" : "2383490",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383490"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-772",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.\nsof_pdata->tplg_filename can have address allocated by kstrdup()\nand can be overwritten. Memory leak was detected with kmemleak:\nunreferenced object 0xffff88812391ff60 (size 16):\ncomm \"kworker/4:1\", pid 161, jiffies 4294802931\nhex dump (first 16 bytes):\n73 6f 66 2d 68 64 61 2d 67 65 6e 65 72 69 63 00  sof-hda-generic.\nbacktrace (crc 4bf1675c):\n__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x49c/0x6b0\nkstrdup+0x46/0xc0\nhda_machine_select.cold+0x1de/0x12cf [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]\nsof_init_environment+0x16f/0xb50 [snd_sof]\nsof_probe_continue+0x45/0x7c0 [snd_sof]\nsof_probe_work+0x1e/0x40 [snd_sof]\nprocess_one_work+0x894/0x14b0\nworker_thread+0x5e5/0xfb0\nkthread+0x39d/0x760\nret_from_fork+0x31/0x70\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20095",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1",
    "package" : "kernel-0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20518",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20518",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38438\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38438\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072501-CVE-2025-38438-f653@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2025-38438",
  "csaw" : false
}