# 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-2026-98514"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:30.612Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:54.190Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98514"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98514.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98514"
title: "drm/nouveau: Fix gem reference leak in validate_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau: Fix gem reference leak in validate_init()\n\nOn the ttm_bo_reserve() failure and \"vma not found\" error paths, the\nloop breaks without adding the looked-up object to any validate list,\nso the reference taken by drm_gem_object_lookup() is never released;\nvalidate_fini() only walks the spliced lists.  Drop the reference\nbefore breaking out on both paths."
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