CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-52904

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the Nouveau driver (drm/nouveau), failure of aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() during probe causes a leak of the nvkm_device object because the error path does not free it before returning. The issue has been fixed by jumping to the fail_nvkm label.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak could lead to exhaustion of system resources and potential denial of service (DoS) on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (jump to fail_nvkm on aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() failure).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure When aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices() fails during probe, the error path returns directly without unwinding the nvkm_device that was just allocated by nvkm_device_pci_new(). This leaks both the device wrapper and the pci_enable_device() reference taken inside it. Jump to the existing fail_nvkm label so nvkm_device_del() runs and balances both. The leak was introduced when the intermediate nvkm_device_del() between detection and aperture removal was dropped in favor of creating the pci device once.

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