CVE-2021-1115

published 2021-10-27

CVE-2021-1115: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for private IOCTLs, where an attacker with local…

Priority P4 21 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

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

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for private IOCTLs, where an attacker with local unprivileged system access may cause a NULL pointer dereference, which may lead to denial of service in a component beyond the vulnerable component.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 390 < 392.68	392.68
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 460 < 463.15	463.15
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 470 < 472.39	472.39
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 490 < 496.49	496.49
nvidia	nvidia_gpu_display_driver	—	—

CVSS provenance

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

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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