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CVE-2018-3979

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 745 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 750 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 750 Ti Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 840M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 845M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 850M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 860M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 950M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Geforce Gtx 960M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Grid M30 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Grid M40 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro K1200 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro K620 Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro M1000M Firmware: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro M1200M Firmware: all versions

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0647
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0647

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