fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-68235

fkie_cve-2025-68235

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-12-16 14:15

Modified

2025-12-18 15:08

Severity ?

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bba02a39bfb383bd1a95868d532c0917e38f9e7
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6492add9a3a163d5e0390428d2636adc3e61b883
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d1977b4ae5c50e1aafc5c51500fc08bd7afd6a0
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/949f1fd2225baefbea2995afa807dba5cbdb6bd3

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "id": "CVE-2025-68235",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-18T15:08:06.237",
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CVE-2025-68235 (GCVE-0-2025-68235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-12-16 14:08

Modified

2025-12-16 14:08

Severity ?

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d1977b4ae5c50e1aafc5c51500fc08bd7afd6a0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6492add9a3a163d5e0390428d2636adc3e61b883
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bba02a39bfb383bd1a95868d532c0917e38f9e7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/949f1fd2225baefbea2995afa807dba5cbdb6bd3

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0
Version: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0
Version: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0
Version: 2541626cfb794e57ba0575a6920826f591f7ced0

Version: 6.2

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