CVE-2022-21813

Published: 1 February 2022

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	some binary drivers are no longer support by NVidia, so they are marked as ignored here

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	jammy	Does not exist
	xenial	Ignored
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	impish	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored
nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-361 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored
nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	jammy	Released (450.172.01-0ubuntu1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Released (450.172.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (450.172.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	impish	Released (450.172.01-0ubuntu0.21.10.1)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Ignored
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-460-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored
	focal	Ignored
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	impish	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.21.10.1)
	jammy	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (470.103.01)
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-470-server Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	impish	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu0.21.10.1)
	jammy	Released (470.103.01-0ubuntu1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (470.103.01)
	xenial	Does not exist
nvidia-graphics-drivers-495 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	focal	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	impish	Not vulnerable (superseded)
	jammy	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Not vulnerable (superseded)
nvidia-graphics-drivers-510 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (510.47.03-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (510.47.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	impish	Released (510.47.03-0ubuntu0.21.04.1)
	jammy	Released (510.47.03-0ubuntu1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (510.47.03)
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

References

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server/+bug/1957790

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