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Go to dashboardWhen a GPU buffer is pinned again into an incompatible memory domain, the nouveau driver returns an error but still increments the pin count, so the count never returns to zero. On release this triggers a kernel WARN_ON splat seen while fuzzing, a crash-style denial of service rather than a code execution path described in the sources.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 21:57 UTC. All times on this page are UTC.
Only machines that load the nouveau open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs are in scope; the flaw is in a kernel GPU driver path reached by local applications using DRM. Servers without a GPU or using the proprietary NVIDIA driver are unlikely to be affected, though the sources do not state this explicitly.
No product ranges from the sources yet.
uname -r and check whether the kernel includes the nouveau fix for nouveau_bo_pin_locked() (unknown from the sources; check the distribution's kernel changelog for this CVE)lsmod | grep nouveauEach row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/nouveau: don't bump pin count on failed re-pin in nouveau_bo_pin_locked()
nouveau_bo_pin_locked() checks whether an already pinned BO is in a memory domain compatible with a new pin request. When the domains are incompatible, it sets -EBUSY but still calls ttm_bo_pin() before returning.
Callers treat a failed nouveau_bo_pin() as not having acquired a new pin, so the extra pin count is never decreased by a matching unpin. This triggers the warning in ttm_bo_release():
WARN_ON_ONCE(bo->pin_count);
Found when fuzzing the nouveau driver with a modified Syzkaller:
WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:256 at ttm_bo_release+0x827/0x9e0 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:256, CPU#1: syz.3.24/2212
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2212 Comm: syz.3.24 Not tainted 7.2.0 #24 PREEMPT(lazy)
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gsp:msg fn:103 len:0x40/0x20 res:0x19 resp:0x19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ttm_bo_release+0x827/0x9e0 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:256
Code: 02 00 0f 85 51 01 00 00 48 8b 7b 08 e8 d2 20 01 00 e9 80 fd ff ff e8 d8 15 c0 fe 90 0f 0b 90 e9 e1 f8 ff ff e8 ca 15 c0 fe 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 a4 f8 ff ff e8 bc 15 c0 fe be 03 00 00 00 4c 89 e7 e8
msg: 00000000: 05 00 d0 c1 04 00 f0 f1 01 30 00 00 2d 90 00 00 .........0..-...
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000f5cf710 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888018e5d2a8 RCX: ffffffff82bb1b36
RDX: ffff888017b68000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888018e5d2a8
msg: 00000010: 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
RBP: ffff88801261c720 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10031cba55
R10: ffff888018e5d2ab R11: 00000000000000f3 R12: ffff888018e5d290
R13: ffff888018e5d2d4 R14: ffff88801b219c18 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880e0f6f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b31223ffc CR3: 0000000028e00005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 80000000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
ttm_bo_put drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:325 [inline]
ttm_bo_fini+0x55/0x80 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:330
nouveau_gem_object_del+0xb2/0x1b0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c:90
drm_gem_object_free+0x5f/0x90 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:1165
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
__drm_gem_object_put include/drm/drm_gem.h:562 [inline]
drm_gem_object_put include/drm/drm_gem.h:575 [inline]
nouveau_abi16_chan_fini.constprop.0+0x44f/0x5a0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.c:195
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: syz.2.23[2209]: Unknown handle 0x00000000
nouveau_abi16_fini+0x1d0/0x340 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_abi16.c:225
nouveau_drm_postclose+0x18b/0x3e0 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c:1284
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: syz.2.23[2209]: validate_init
drm_file_free.part.0+0x6d6/0xb60 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:267
drm_file_free drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:237 [inline]
drm_close_helper.isra.0+0x11a/0x160 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:290
drm_release+0x1ab/0x330 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:438
__fput+0x39c/0xa60 fs/file_table.c:512
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: syz.2.23[2209]: validate: -2
task_work_run+0x15a/0x230 kernel/task_work.c:233
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
do_exit+0x82b/0x25a0 kernel/exit.c:1009
do_group_exit+0xc2/0x280 kernel/exit.c:1152
get_signal+0x1d6e/0x1f30 kernel/signal.c:3046
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x7d/0x6e0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xdf/0x440 kernel/entry/common.c:101
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4f8/0x690 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
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