Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in nVidia products - CVE-2022-21814
Published: February 1, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU60219
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-2022-21814
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
Quadro
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
Quadro
NVS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux. A local user can run a specially crafted program to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-21814
Install updates from vendor's website.