CVE-2018-6253 Denial of service in GPU Display Driver

What is CVE-2018-6253?

CVE-2018-6253 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Driver, published on 2 Apr 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6253?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2018-6253?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2018-6253 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6253 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Driver

• CVE-2019-5684 Memory corruption in GPU Display Driver Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-5053 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-5986 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2019-5685 Memory corruption in GPU Display Driver Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6247 Null dereference in GPU Display Driver High 8.8

All Nvidia Gpu Driver vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6253, GHSA-6gwm-q2fh-qvhr, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6253.