{"id":"CVE-2025-38438","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-\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","modified":"2026-03-20T12:42:51.568166Z","published":"2025-07-25T15:27:17.917Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38438.json"},"references":[{"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"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38438.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38438"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4"},{"fixed":"68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f"},{"fixed":"58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a"},{"fixed":"6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38438.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}