{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-21870", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-12-29T08:45:45.781Z", "datePublished": "2025-03-27T13:38:22.849Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:01.457Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:01.457Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Harden loops for looking up ALH copiers\n\nOther, non DAI copier widgets could have the same stream name (sname) as\nthe ALH copier and in that case the copier->data is NULL, no alh_data is\nattached, which could lead to NULL pointer dereference.\nWe could check for this NULL pointer in sof_ipc4_prepare_copier_module()\nand avoid the crash, but a similar loop in sof_ipc4_widget_setup_comp_dai()\nwill miscalculate the ALH device count, causing broken audio.\n\nThe correct fix is to harden the matching logic by making sure that the\n1. widget is a DAI widget - so dai = w->private is valid\n2. the dai (and thus the copier) is ALH copier" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is reached only through the local ALSA PCM character device (`/dev/snd/pcmC*D*`) via `SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS`, which flows into `sof_pcm_hw_params()` → `sof_prepare_widgets_in_path()` → `sof_ipc4_prepare_copier_module()`. There is no network or remote-peer input on this path.\nAC:L - On an affected system (Intel SoundWire/ALH platform whose topology has a non-DAI widget sharing an `sname` with an ALH copier), the attacker simply opens the PCM device and issues hw_params — the faulty widget-matching loop runs deterministically every time, with no race to win and no memory layout to guess.\nPR:L - Only access to the sound PCM device node is required, which any logged-in desktop user gets via logind ACLs and any `audio`-group member gets on servers/embedded systems; no capability check exists anywhere along the hw_params → widget-prepare path.\nUI:N - The attacker performs the entire sequence themselves by opening the PCM device and calling hw_params; no victim action, mount, or file-open by another user is needed.\nS:U - The type confusion and heap corruption occur in kernel memory within the same security authority as the attacking local user; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The type confusion causes `dai->private` to be read from a mismatched struct and dereferenced as `struct sof_ipc4_copier *`, disclosing arbitrary kernel heap contents, and the inflated `config_length` makes the `memcpy()` at ipc4-topology.c:2211 read past the 136-byte blob allocation into the IPC payload.\nI:H - This is a type confusion (`w->private` treated as `struct snd_sof_dai` when it is not), and the unbounded `blob->alh_cfg.mapping[i++]` loop can write past the fixed 16-entry array in a kmalloc-192 object, giving a heap out-of-bounds write that is leverageable for control-flow corruption.\nA:H - The commit explicitly documents a NULL/wild pointer dereference causing a kernel oops, and the miscounted `device_count` additionally corrupts the ALH blob and yields `GENMASK(-1, 0)` via a zero `step` — any of which panics the kernel and can be re-triggered at will." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "sound/soc/sof/ipc4-topology.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe", "lessThan": "87c8768a96092ce75cd47fe076db5080db7ac515", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe", "lessThan": "93c6c2e5801aab09ef1ef99f248f3cd323c3f152", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe", "lessThan": "6fd60136d256b3b948333ebdb3835f41a95ab7ef", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "sound/soc/sof/ipc4-topology.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.0", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.17", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.13.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.13.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.14", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.17" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13.5" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.0", "versionEndExcluding": "6.14" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c8768a96092ce75cd47fe076db5080db7ac515" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93c6c2e5801aab09ef1ef99f248f3cd323c3f152" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fd60136d256b3b948333ebdb3835f41a95ab7ef" } ], "title": "ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Harden loops for looking up ALH copiers", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }