CVE-2018-3979

A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution

High · published April 1, 2019

CVSS v3.0
7.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
72.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01429 · 72.6th percentile
Published
2019-04-01T20:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 APR 20:10Z
    A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution
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