CVE-2025-68235 (GCVE-0-2025-68235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:08 – Updated: 2025-12-16 14:08
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Title
nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot nvkm_falcon_fw::boot is allocated, but no one frees it. This causes a kmemleak warning. Make sure this data is deallocated.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0 , < 7d1977b4ae5c50e1aafc5c51500fc08bd7afd6a0 (git)
Affected: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0 , < 6492add9a3a163d5e0390428d2636adc3e61b883 (git)
Affected: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0 , < 2bba02a39bfb383bd1a95868d532c0917e38f9e7 (git)
Affected: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0 , < 949f1fd2225baefbea2995afa807dba5cbdb6bd3 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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