CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-21870

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's ASoC SOF driver for IPC4 topology, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found. Loops looking for ALH copiers may encounter non-DAI widgets with NULL copier->data, causing a crash.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to denial of service (kernel panic) or incorrect audio behavior, especially in systems with advanced audio configurations.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that hardens the DAI widget matching logic in ALH loops.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Harden loops for looking up ALH copiers Other, non DAI copier widgets could have the same stream name (sname) as the ALH copier and in that case the copier->data is NULL, no alh_data is attached, which could lead to NULL pointer dereference. We could check for this NULL pointer in sof_ipc4_prepare_copier_module() and avoid the crash, but a similar loop in sof_ipc4_widget_setup_comp_dai() will miscalculate the ALH device count, causing broken audio. The correct fix is to harden the matching logic by making sure that the 1. widget is a DAI widget - so dai = w->private is valid 2. the dai (and thus the copier) is ALH copier

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