CVE-2020-36788

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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().

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36788

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36788.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.14.12-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.84-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.14.12-1
debian debiansidfixed5.14.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.14.12-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.