Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38056)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38056). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.31, 6.14.9 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix UAF when reloading module
hda_generic_machine_select() appends -idisp to the tplg filename by
allocating a new string with devm_kasprintf(), then stores the string
right back into the global variable snd_soc_acpi_intel_hda_machines.
When the module is unloaded, this memory is freed, resulting in a global
variable pointing to freed memory. Reloading the module then triggers
a use-after-free:
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in string+0x48/0xe0
Use-after-free read at 0x00000000967e0109 (in kfence-#99):
string+0x48/0xe0
vsnprintf+0x329/0x6e0
devm_kvasprintf+0x54/0xb0
devm_kasprintf+0x58/0x80
hda_machine_select.cold+0x198/0x17a2 [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]
sof_probe_work+0x7f/0x600 [snd_sof]
process_one_work+0x17b/0x330
worker_thread+0x2ce/0x3f0
kthread+0xcf/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
kfence-#99: 0x00000000198a940f-0x00000000ace47d9d, size=64, cache=kmalloc-64
allocated by task 333 on cpu 8 at 17.798069s (130.453553s ago):
devm_kmalloc+0x52/0x120
devm_kvasprintf+0x66/0xb0
devm_kasprintf+0x58/0x80
hda_machine_select.cold+0x198/0x17a2 [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]
sof_probe_work+0x7f/0x600 [snd_sof]
process_one_work+0x17b/0x330
worker_thread+0x2ce/0x3f0
kthread+0xcf/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
freed by task 1543 on cpu 4 at 141.586686s (6.665010s ago):
release_nodes+0x43/0xb0
devres_release_all+0x90/…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38056 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.31, 6.14.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38056" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-38056 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.31, 6.14.9 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.12.31, 6.14.9.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Kernelを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.12.31, 6.14.9ステージング環境で 6.12.31, 6.14.9 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38056 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.41-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38056 linux Fixed in: 6.12.32-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38056 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org