# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38438"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:17.917Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:27:59.571Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38438"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38438.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38438"
title: "ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak."
summary: "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"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68397fda2caa90e99a7c0bcb2cf604e42ef3b91f"},{"version":"dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58ecf51af12cb32b890858b52b2c34e80590c74a"},{"version":"dd96daca6c83ecaf37f38ff49d8d174bbff576b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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