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CVE-2025-40338

ASoC: Intel: avs: Do not share the name pointer between components

EPSS 0.2%

Published 2025-12-09 (10 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem sound/soc. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.

What to do, per Debian release

Debian's own status for CVE-2025-40338 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source

ReleaseStatus VersionWhat this means
Debian 12bookwormvulnerable6.1.190-1No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication.
Debian 13trixievulnerable6.12.113-1No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series trixie tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for trixie have historically landed a median of 11 days after publication.
Debian 14forkyfixed6.17.8-1Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.17.8-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts.
Debian unstablesidfixed6.17.8-1Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.17.8-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts.

The vulnerability

What the bug is

By sharing 'name' directly, tearing down components may lead to use-after-free errors. Duplicate the name to avoid that. At the same time, update the order of operations - since commit cee28113db17 ("ASoC: dmaengine_pcm: Allow passing component name via config") the framework does not override component->name if set before invoking the initializer.

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

sound/soc/intel/avs/pcm.c

What this is
INTEL ASoC DRIVERSMAINTAINERS section matched on sound/soc/intel/ · linux-sound@vger.kernel.org · Supported
Kernel module
snd_soc_avs

Check it on the machine

grep -wE 'CONFIG_SND|CONFIG_SND_SOC|CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_AVS' /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.

lsmod | grep -w snd_soc_avs

Prints a line if that module is loaded right now, and nothing if it is not. One that is not loaded can still be loaded later by anything that needs it.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian does not build this code in 1 release. It does build it in 3 releases, so the answer depends on which release the machine runs.

  • bookwormn
  • trixieMnot built on amd64/cloud-amd64, arm64/arm64, arm64/arm64-16k, arm64/cloud-arm64, arm64/rt/arm64, armel/rpi, armhf/armmp, armhf/armmp-lpae, armhf/rt/armmp, ppc64el/powerpc64le, ppc64el/powerpc64le-64k, riscv64/riscv64, s390x/s390x
  • forky, sidMnot built on amd64/cloud-amd64, arm64/arm64, arm64/arm64-16k, arm64/cloud-arm64, arm64/rt-arm64, armhf/armmp, armhf/armmp-lpae, loong64/loong64, ppc64el/powerpc64le, ppc64el/powerpc64le-64k, riscv64/riscv64, s390x/s390x
n
not enabled on any flavour - this release does not build the code
M
a module where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
Build switches
CONFIG_SND, CONFIG_SND_SOC, CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_AVS
Reads as
all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages

Signals

Published
2025-12-09 (10 months ago)source
CVSS
no vector published, unrated
Attack vector
not published
EPSS
0.21%, higher than 11.2% of all CVEssource
CISA KEV
not listedthe KEV catalogue
Debian urgency
not yet assignedsource
Subsystem
sound/soc

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

IntroducedFixed inCommit
5.196.17.8128bf29c9929
5.196.184dee5c1cc439

Why the CNA scored it this way

The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2025-40338, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.