CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-34406

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 18, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024

CVSS 3.x

4.7

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.7 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

4.7 MODERATE

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-34406
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHost, where a specific race condition can lead to a null pointer dereference, which may lead to a system reboot.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Shield_experience	Nvidia	*	9.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

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