CVE-2026-64020 (GCVE-0-2026-64020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-10-15 10:07
VLAI
Title
nvme-pci: fix dma_vecs leak on p2p memory
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-pci: fix dma_vecs leak on p2p memory We don't unmap P2P memory, so we don't need to track it. The dma_vec allocation was getting leaked on the completion.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b8b7570a7ec872f2a27b775c4f8710ca8a357adf , < b9390aa62fdcabdaac2d09545be05901f6cecaf5 (git)
Affected: b8b7570a7ec872f2a27b775c4f8710ca8a357adf , < 24ea0de233d9ebb5ebd6f6018eaf2084af25e3dd (git)
Affected: b8b7570a7ec872f2a27b775c4f8710ca8a357adf , < 85686c72966c5ee637893f124ddb31a1cace7bee (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.57 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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