PT-2020-5741 · Nvidia+2 · Nvidia Gpu Display Driver For Linux+2

Published 2020-06-24 · Updated 2020-07-13 · CVE-2020-5967

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions

Description: The issue is related to a race condition in the UVM driver, which may lead to a denial of service. This is due to concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization, allowing an attacker to potentially cause a service disruption.

Recommendations: For all versions, consider applying configuration changes to minimize the risk of exploitation, such as restricting access to the UVM driver until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-01696

CVE-2020-5967

USN-4404-1

USN-4404-2

Affected Products

Linuxmint

Nvidia Gpu Display Driver For Linux

Ubuntu

References · 17

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5967 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-5967 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01696 · Security Note
• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5967 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4404-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4404-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5967 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4404-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4404-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5967 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-5973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-5967 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2 · Vendor Advisory