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FKIE_CVE-2020-36788

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:16
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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().
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548f2ff8ea5e0ce767ae3418d1ec5308990be87dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf34aa5082ee2343574bc3f4d1c126030913e54Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86e19d918a85492ad1a01fcdc0ad5ecbdac6f96Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548f2ff8ea5e0ce767ae3418d1ec5308990be87dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf34aa5082ee2343574bc3f4d1c126030913e54Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86e19d918a85492ad1a01fcdc0ad5ecbdac6f96Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15
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