CVE-2021-1090

HIGH

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for control calls where the software reads or writes to a buffer by using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer, which may lead to data tampering or denial of service.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-02

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 34.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-120
Status published
Products (1)
nvidia/gpu_display_driver 427.33 - 427.48
Published Jul 22, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026