CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-1122

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 29, 2021 | Modified: Nov 02, 2021
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where it can dereference a NULL pointer, which may lead to denial of service.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 8.0 (including) 8.9 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 11.0 (including) 11.6 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 12.0 (including) 12.4 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 13.0 (including) 13.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References