# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40338"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T04:09:54.753Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:57.098Z"
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-2025-40338"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40338.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40338"
title: "ASoC: Intel: avs: Do not share the name pointer between components"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: Intel: avs: Do not share the name pointer between components\n\nBy sharing 'name' directly, tearing down components may lead to\nuse-after-free errors. Duplicate the name to avoid that.\n\nAt the same time, update the order of operations - since commit\ncee28113db17 (\"ASoC: dmaengine_pcm: Allow passing component name via\nconfig\") the framework does not override component-\u003ename if set before\ninvoking the initializer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f1b3b320bd6519b16e3480f74f2926d106e3bcba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a187ea7a5b4e78b9be1f9c1507cff04f3ae4ab1"},{"version":"f1b3b320bd6519b16e3480f74f2926d106e3bcba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a80a82f567f7c6276d96409377d4691ea30d18a2"},{"version":"f1b3b320bd6519b16e3480f74f2926d106e3bcba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"128bf29c992988f8b4f3829227339908fde5ec86"},{"version":"f1b3b320bd6519b16e3480f74f2926d106e3bcba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dee5c1cc439b0d5ef87f741518268ad6a95b23d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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