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CVE-2020-36788 (GCVE-0-2020-36788)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:03 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:44
VLAI
Title
drm/nouveau: avoid a use-after-free when BO init fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: avoid a use-after-free when BO init fails nouveau_bo_init() is backed by ttm_bo_init() and ferries its return code back to the caller. On failures, ttm_bo_init() invokes the provided destructor which should de-initialize and free the memory. Thus, when nouveau_bo_init() returns an error the gem object has already been released and the memory freed by nouveau_bo_del_ttm().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-23 19:01 UTC
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 , < f86e19d918a85492ad1a01fcdc0ad5ecbdac6f96 (git)
Affected: 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 , < 548f2ff8ea5e0ce767ae3418d1ec5308990be87d (git)
Affected: 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 , < bcf34aa5082ee2343574bc3f4d1c126030913e54 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.73 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.14.12 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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