CVE-2018-12153 Denial of service in Intel Graphics Driver
An unprivileged user in a virtual machine guest can crash the host system via local access due to a flaw in the Intel Graphics Driver's shader compiler.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-12153?
CVE-2018-12153 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Intel Graphics Driver, published on 10 Oct 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Denial of Service in Unified Shader Compiler in Intel Graphics Drivers before 10.18.x.5056 (aka 15.33.x.5056), 10.18.x.5057 (aka 15.36.x.5057) and 20.19.x.5058 (aka 15.40.x.5058) may allow an unprivileged user from a virtual machine guest to potentially crash the host system via local access.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12153?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Intel Graphics Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2018-12153?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-12153 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-12153 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12153 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Intel Graphics Driver
- CVE-2018-12214 Memory corruption in Intel(R) Graphics Driver for Windows
- CVE-2018-12216 Code injection in Intel(R) Graphics Driver for Windows
- CVE-2018-12220 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Graphics Driver for Windows
- CVE-2020-0504 Memory corruption in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers
- CVE-2020-0508 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cgw8-6rc7-29xf.