Title: Remote Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in Nouveau Display Driver Allows Attackers to Crash Systems via Specially Crafted Pixel Shader

Title: Remote Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in Nouveau Display Driver Allows Attackers to Crash Systems via Specially Crafted Pixel Shader

CVE-2018-3979 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause remote denial-of-service issues. An attacker can provide a specially crafted website to trigger this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered remotely after the user visits a malformed website. No further user interaction is required. Vulnerable versions include Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64), Nouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload).

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