{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38438 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38438 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38438 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38438 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38438 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38438/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38438/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38438","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38438/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38438","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38438","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38438","GHSA-rvg6-v4xx-qvv4","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38438","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38438","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38438","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38438","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38438"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's Intel HDA audio driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"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","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.","id":"CVE-2025-38438","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"bnxt_en: Set DMA unmap len correctly for XDP_REDIRECT","id":"CVE-2025-38439"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ksmbd: fix potential use-after-free in oplock/lease break ack","id":"CVE-2025-38437"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-25","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's Intel HDA audio driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38438/"}