CVE-2025-21870 (GCVE-0-2025-21870)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 13:38 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:08
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Title
ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Harden loops for looking up ALH copiers
Summary
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
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe , < 87c8768a96092ce75cd47fe076db5080db7ac515 (git)
Affected: a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe , < 93c6c2e5801aab09ef1ef99f248f3cd323c3f152 (git)
Affected: a150345aa758492e05d2934f318ce7c2566b1cfe , < 6fd60136d256b3b948333ebdb3835f41a95ab7ef (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.17 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.5 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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