# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-36788"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:27.915Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:44:32.011Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:21.187Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36788"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-36788.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36788"
title: "drm/nouveau: avoid a use-after-free when BO init fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau: avoid a use-after-free when BO init fails\n\nnouveau_bo_init() is backed by ttm_bo_init() and ferries its return code\nback to the caller. On failures, ttm_bo_init() invokes the provided\ndestructor which should de-initialize and free the memory.\n\nThus, when nouveau_bo_init() returns an error the gem object has already\nbeen released and the memory freed by nouveau_bo_del_ttm()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f86e19d918a85492ad1a01fcdc0ad5ecbdac6f96"},{"version":"019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"548f2ff8ea5e0ce767ae3418d1ec5308990be87d"},{"version":"019cbd4a4feb3aa3a917d78e7110e3011bbff6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcf34aa5082ee2343574bc3f4d1c126030913e54"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.10.73","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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