CVE-2025-38729

Updated on 04 Sep 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too

UAC3 power domain descriptors need to be verified with its variable bLength for avoiding the unexpected OOB accesses by malicious firmware, too.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+10 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: usb-audio: Validate UAC3 power domain descriptors, too

UAC3 power domain descriptors need to be verified with its variable bLength for avoiding the unexpected OOB accesses by malicious firmware, too.

Fixes