{"id":"CVE-2025-38056","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38056","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:42:31.122Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix UAF when reloading module hda_generic_machine_select() appends -idisp to the tplg filename by allocating a new string with devm_kasprintf(), then stores the…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix UAF when reloading module\n\nhda_generic_machine_select() appends -idisp to the tplg filename by\nallocating a new string with devm_kasprintf(), then stores the string\nright back into the global variable snd_soc_acpi_intel_hda_machines.\nWhen the module is unloaded, this memory is freed, resulting in a global\nvariable pointing to freed memory.  Reloading the module then triggers\na use-after-free:\n\nBUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in string+0x48/0xe0\n\nUse-after-free read at 0x00000000967e0109 (in kfence-#99):\n string+0x48/0xe0\n vsnprintf+0x329/0x6e0\n devm_kvasprintf+0x54/0xb0\n devm_kasprintf+0x58/0x80\n hda_machine_select.cold+0x198/0x17a2 [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]\n sof_probe_work+0x7f/0x600 [snd_sof]\n process_one_work+0x17b/0x330\n worker_thread+0x2ce/0x3f0\n kthread+0xcf/0x100\n ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nkfence-#99: 0x00000000198a940f-0x00000000ace47d9d, size=64, cache=kmalloc-64\n\nallocated by task 333 on cpu 8 at 17.798069s (130.453553s ago):\n devm_kmalloc+0x52/0x120\n devm_kvasprintf+0x66/0xb0\n devm_kasprintf+0x58/0x80\n hda_machine_select.cold+0x198/0x17a2 [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]\n sof_probe_work+0x7f/0x600 [snd_sof]\n process_one_work+0x17b/0x330\n worker_thread+0x2ce/0x3f0\n kthread+0xcf/0x100\n ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nfreed by task 1543 on cpu 4 at 141.586686s (6.665010s ago):\n release_nodes+0x43/0xb0\n devres_release_all+0x90/0xf0\n device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70\n device_release_driver_internal+0x1c1/0x200\n driver_detach+0x48/0x90\n bus_remove_driver+0x6d/0xf0\n pci_unregister_driver+0x42/0xb0\n __do_sys_delete_module+0x1d1/0x310\n do_syscall_64+0x82/0x190\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nFix it by copying the match array with devm_kmemdup_array() before we\nmodify it.","published":"2025-06-18T10:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:15:58.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00196,"percentile":0.09206,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b49e68360eb6a1c03dc1642a51f7d9f6784c034","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd7f39fce0022b386ef1ea5ffef92ecc7dfc6af","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9670b2e81e8a3cbf2e1e757190dd0b920a9d43f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38056","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}