# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40097"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-30T09:48:04.567Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:55:28.438Z"
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-2025-40097"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40097.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40097"
title: "ALSA: hda: Fix missing pointer check in hda_component_manager_init function"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: hda: Fix missing pointer check in hda_component_manager_init function\n\nThe __component_match_add function may assign the 'matchptr' pointer\nthe value ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM), which will subsequently be dereferenced.\n\nThe call stack leading to the error looks like this:\n\nhda_component_manager_init\n|-\u003e component_match_add\n    |-\u003e component_match_add_release\n        |-\u003e __component_match_add ( ... ,**matchptr, ... )\n            |-\u003e *matchptr = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);       // assign\n|-\u003e component_master_add_with_match( ...  match)\n    |-\u003e component_match_realloc(match, match-\u003enum); // dereference\n\nAdd IS_ERR() check to prevent the crash.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
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