CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6253
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.
Affected configurations
• nvidia gpu driver
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522 Third Party Advisory
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522 Third Party Advisory