PT-2018-17442 · Nvidia+1 · Nvidia Gpu Display Driver+1

Published 2018-04-02 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-6253

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers of the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion, leading to denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6253

USN-3662-1

Affected Products

Nvidia Gpu Display Driver

Ubuntu

References · 16

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6253 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6253 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6253 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6249 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6249 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 · Note