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
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
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trusty |
Does not exist
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xenial |
Does not exist
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bionic |
Released
(390.138-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
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eoan |
Released
(390.138-0ubuntu0.19.10.1)
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focal |
Released
(390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
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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 |