5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-6253

Published: 02/04/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #894338 nvidia-graphics-drivers: CVE-2018-6249, CVE-2018-6253: null pointer dereference and infinite recursion due to malformed shader Package: src:nvidia-graphics-drivers; Maintainer for src:nvidia-graphics-drivers is Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: ...
NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator ...
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkmsys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a NULL pointer dereference may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges (CVE-2018-6247) NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscap ...