CVE-2018-3979 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Nouveau
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateMay 13
Description
A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause remote denial-of-service issues. An attacker can provide a specially crafted website to trigger this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered remotely after the user visits a malformed website. No further user interaction is required. Vulnerable versions include Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
▶CVEListV5nouveau/nouveauNouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64)+1
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-m48r-fqqr-r9gc: A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader ex↗2022-05-13
OSV▶
CVE-2018-3979: A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader ex↗2019-04-01
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2018-3979: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display D...↗2018