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CVE-2020-5973

Published: 24 June 2020

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privileged operations, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.4), version 9.x (prior to 9.4) and version 10.x (prior to 10.3).

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the NVIDIA virtual GPU guest drivers contained an unspecified vulnerability that could potentially lead to privileged operation execution. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nvidia-graphics-drivers-390
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

bionic
Released (390.138-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
eoan
Released (390.138-0ubuntu0.19.10.1)
focal
Released (390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

xenial Does not exist

bionic
Released (440.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
eoan
Released (440.100-0ubuntu0.19.10.1)
focal
Released (440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.4
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H