CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-21815

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 07, 2022 | Modified: Sep 03, 2022
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
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for private IOCTLs where a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel, created within user mode code, may lead to a denial of service in the form of a system crash.

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
Cloud_gaming_guest Nvidia - -
Geforce Nvidia - -
Gpu_display_driver Nvidia - -
Nvs Nvidia - -
Quadro Nvidia - -
Rtx Nvidia - -
Studio Nvidia - -
Tesla Nvidia - -
Virtual_gpu Nvidia - -

Potential Mitigations

References