CVE-2018-3979

published 2019-04-01

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 execution…

Priority P4 29 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI R S U C N I N A H

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 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64), Nouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload).

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
canonical	ubuntu_linux	—	—
debian	xserver-xorg-video-nouveau	—	—
nouveau	nouveau	—	—
nouveau	nouveau	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v3.0 7.4 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.5 LOW

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