5.5

CVE-2025-39679: drm/nouveau/nvif: Fix potential memory leak in nvif_vmm_ctor().

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39679DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39679
Published 05-09-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-39679 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 34 · Related 31
DSA-6008-1MGASA-2025-0234MGASA-2025-0235OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1

Timeline

  1. 05-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu122 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 6b252cf42281045a9f803d2198023500cfa6ebd2, < 72553fe19317fe93cb8591c83095c446bc7fe292 | ≥ 6b252cf42281045a9f803d2198023500cfa6ebd2, < cabcb52d76d3d42f16c344a96e098dd9d18602f8 | ≥ 6b252cf42281045a9f803d2198023500cfa6ebd2, < 7d9110e3b35d08832661da1a1fc2d24455981a04 | ≥ 6b252cf42281045a9f803d2198023500cfa6ebd2, < bb8aeaa3191b617c6faf8ae937252e059673b7ea | 6.6
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.6, < 6.6.103 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.44 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.16.4 | 6.17:rc1 | 6.17:rc2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.48-1 | < 6.16.5-1

3 vendors · 125 products

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