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CVE-2025-37793: ASoC: Intel: avs: Fix null-ptr-deref in avs_component_probe()

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Fix null-ptr-deref in avs_component_probe() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, avs_component_probe() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.6 before 6.6.88; from 6.7 before 6.12.25; from 6.13 before 6.14.4; 6.15-rc1, 6.15-rc2 — fixed in 6.12.25, 6.14.4, 6.6.88

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.12.25, 6.14.4, 6.6.88. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23fde311ea1d0a6c36bf92ce48b90b77d0ece1a4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95f723cf141b95e3b3a5b92cf2ea98a863fe7275
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaa93b8846101461de815759d39979661b82d5a5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2825073271b6f15e669a424b363612082494863

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