CVE-2025-39679: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6, before 6.6.103 (fixed in 6.6.103); from 6.7, before 6.12.44 (fixed in 6.12.44); from 6.13, before 6.16.4 (fixed in 6.16.4); version 6.17 only

Published 2025-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.