CVE-2022-21813

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

Affected products

NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Guest: all versions
NVIDIA GeForce: all versions
NVIDIA Guest driver: all versions
NVIDIA Nvs: all versions
NVIDIA Quadro: all versions
NVIDIA Rtx: all versions
NVIDIA Tesla: all versions
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software: all versions

References

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5312
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-02
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5312
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-02

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