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drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor().

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor(). When the nvif_vmm_type is invalid, we will return error directly without freeing the args in nvif_vmm_ctor(), which leading a memory leak. Fix it by setting the ret -EINVAL and goto done.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.12.44, 6.16.4, 6.6.103
CVEs
CVE-2025-39679
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 08:21 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor().

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Sept 2025, 17:20 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor(). When the nvif_vmm_type is invalid, we will return error directly without freeing the args in nvif_vmm_ctor(), which leading a memory leak. Fix it by setting the ret -EINVAL and goto done.

osv:CVE-2025-39679

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.6.103, 6.12.44, 6.16.4

Complete source record
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