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CVE-2020-36788

drm/nouveau: avoid a use-after-free when BO init fails PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 before f86e19d918a85492ad1a01fcdc0ad5ecbdac6f96; affected 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 before 548f2ff8ea5e0ce767ae3418d1ec5308990be87d; affected 019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5 before bcf34aa5082ee2343574bc3f4d1c126030913e54
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.4; unaffected 0 before 5.4; unaffected 5.10.73 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.14.12 through 5.14.*; unaffected 5.15 through *

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