CVE-2025-39679 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-39679

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

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
6b252cf42281045a9f803d2198023500cfa6ebd2, 6.6, 0, 6.6.103, 6.12.44, 6.16.4, 6.17

Timeline

Official Publish: September 5th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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