CVE-2025-39679

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.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-401

Published

2025-09-05

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72553fe19317fe93cb8591c83095c446bc7fe292
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d9110e3b35d08832661da1a1fc2d24455981a04
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb8aeaa3191b617c6faf8ae937252e059673b7ea
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cabcb52d76d3d42f16c344a96e098dd9d18602f8

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