# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89801"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:30:34.458Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:52:55.925Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89801"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89801.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89801"
title: "drm/nouveau/uvmm: fix premature region free on failed OP_UNMAP_SPARSE"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau/uvmm: fix premature region free on failed OP_UNMAP_SPARSE\n\nIn nouveau_uvmm_bind_job_submit()'s OP_UNMAP_SPARSE arm, op-\u003ereg is set\nfrom nouveau_uvma_region_find(), which only looks the region up and takes\nno reference; a region's sole reference is its membership in\nuvmm-\u003eregion_mt. Two failure paths leave op-\u003ereg set: the -ENOENT check\nwhen the region is busy, and the drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap_ops_create() failure.\nThe sibling nouveau_uvmm_sm_unmap_prepare() failure just below clears\nop-\u003ereg; these two do not.\n\nunwind_continue steps back one op, so the failing op is skipped by the\nunwind loop and its op-\u003ereg stays set. nouveau_uvmm_bind_job_cleanup()\nthen enters its if (op-\u003ereg) branch and calls nouveau_uvma_region_remove()\nand nouveau_uvma_region_put() on it, dropping the tree's sole reference\nand freeing a region this job never created. The comment above the\ncleanup loop documents the broken invariant: op-\u003ereg must be NULL on\nsubmit failure.\n\nThis frees a live region on an unrelated failure, reachable single-job\nwhen drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap_ops_create() returns -ENOMEM; if another job owns\nthe same region, its cleanup then removes and puts the freed region, a\nuse-after-free. Clear op-\u003ereg on both failure paths."
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