Bug 2422746 (CVE-2025-68235) - CVE-2025-68235 kernel: nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot
Summary: CVE-2025-68235 kernel: nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_f...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68235
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-16 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 18:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 15:01:40 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-16 23:07:54 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025121634-CVE-2025-68235-2837@gregkh/T
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