CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-53877

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 25, 2025 | Modified: Sep 18, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the nvdisasm binary, where a user could cause a NULL pointer exception by passing a malformed ELF file to nvdisasm. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Cuda_toolkitNvidia*12.8.0 (excluding)
Nvidia-cuda-toolkitUbuntufocal*
Nvidia-cuda-toolkitUbuntuoracular*
Nvidia-cuda-toolkitUbuntuplucky*

Potential Mitigations

References