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CVE-2022-21814

• 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-280

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver package, 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 GeForce: all versions
• NVIDIA Guest driver: all versions
• NVIDIA Nvs: all versions
• NVIDIA Quadro: all versions
• NVIDIA Rtx: all versions
• NVIDIA Tesla: 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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