CVE-2025-39679
Not scored
drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor().
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.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
September 5, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-39679
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- 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
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/39xxx/CVE-2025-39679.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39679