CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6253

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Apr 02, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gpu_driver Nvidia - (including) - (including)
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 Ubuntu trusty *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Ubuntu artful *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Ubuntu trusty *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Ubuntu xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu artful *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu bionic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu devel *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu trusty *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 Ubuntu artful *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 Ubuntu trusty *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 Ubuntu upstream *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 Ubuntu xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu upstream *

References