CVE-2025-39679CWE-401

CVE-2025-39679

Medium · published September 5, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00159 · 4.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2025-09-05T22:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.6, < 6.6.1036.6.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.446.12.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.46.16.4
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (4)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72553fe19317fe93cb8591c83095c446bc7fe292 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d9110e3b35d08832661da1a1fc2d24455981a04 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb8aeaa3191b617c6faf8ae937252e059673b7ea · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cabcb52d76d3d42f16c344a96e098dd9d18602f8 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 17:20Z
    drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor().
    cvelistv5