CVE-2021-1095

MEDIUM

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver 418.197.02-418.211.00 and 427.33-427.48 - Denial of Service via Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handlers for all control calls with embedded parameters where dereferencing an untrusted pointer may lead to denial of service.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00013.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-02

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5211

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0029

EPSS Percentile 52.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

nvidia/gpu_display_driver 418.197.02 - 418.211.00

nvidia/gpu_display_driver 427.33 - 427.48

Published Jul 22, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026