CVE-2025-40344 (GCVE-0-2025-40344)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 04:10 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:09
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Title
ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-elapsed work when closing PCM
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Disable periods-elapsed work when closing PCM avs_dai_fe_shutdown() handles the shutdown procedure for HOST HDAudio stream while period-elapsed work services its IRQs. As the former frees the DAI's private context, these two operations shall be synchronized to avoid slab-use-after-free or worse errors.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00 , < ca6d2b7aca778afbf8c0c4b330d10cb228c14052 (git)
Affected: 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00 , < b41fca4aa60be896ba8a81b57aac5dcc6eee66c0 (git)
Affected: 0dbb186c3510cad4e9f443e801bf2e6ab5770c00 , < 845f716dc5f354c719f6fda35048b6c2eca99331 (git)
Affected: 31087af37d6b1586b76d4acf3e0c1634a4617ba6 (git)
Affected: 6.11.9 , < 6.12 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.58 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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