CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-3979

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-04-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • nvidia geforce gtx 745 firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 750 firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 750 ti firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 840m firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 845m firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 850m firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 860m firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 950m firmware • nvidia geforce gtx 960m firmware • nvidia quadro k620 firmware • nvidia quadro k1200 firmware • nvidia quadro k2200 firmware • nvidia quadro m1000m firmware • nvidia quadro m1200m firmware • nvidia grid m30 firmware • nvidia grid m40 firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References