CVE-2018-3979

State: Published
Severity: 7.4 High
Published: Apr 1, 2019
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 2, 2018

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).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.4 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	talos

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NouveauNouveau	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64)Affected Nouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload)Affected

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0647

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