# 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-2026-98516"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:34.436Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:57.329Z"
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-2026-98516"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98516.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98516"
title: "drm/nouveau: Fix bridge reference leak in nv1a_ram_new()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau: Fix bridge reference leak in nv1a_ram_new()\n\npci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() takes a reference to the PCI device,\nwhich is never released once the memory size has been read from its\nconfig space.  Drop the reference before returning."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"add5e0a45e3971df9c65cc7b59c90559a25dc5a9"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bda86f1fb2373a2ad8900341d5d6a6d68ce6ddb"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ffb43369ae51af5d5646b1ef680ab1af0fb4ad9"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac4f1d28498b9798fc20f91f23a4256032186370"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"553c86816e99855d6784eebd2588d5d2198c280e"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d497216c10af3dc9747b399295f385fabbac9e5"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e0861ebb9ecf0b726ea42123bd579362ec1f977"},{"version":"2fa6d6cdaf283c05ae23842b2a04aeb223203c13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67b4411538c8341692548429d43256f25be99f7a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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