Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU55038

Reachable Assertion in nVidia products - CVE-2021-1093

Published: July 20, 2021

Vulnerability identifier: #VU55038

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-1093

CWE-ID: CWE-617

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: nVidia

Affected software:
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver
NVIDIA vGPU Software

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion. A local user can run a specially crafted program to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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