CVE-2018-6253

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-6253
  • Assigner
  • psirt@nvidia.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-04-02T16:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-03T00:03:26
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-835 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 Vendor Advisory
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6253
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6253
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:43:58 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 04:07:52 2018-04-02T16:29Z 2018-04-02T16:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 04:07:52 2019-10-03T00:03:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 04:07:52 Modified Vulnerability Status updated