CVE-2020-5959 Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

What is CVE-2020-5959?

CVE-2020-5959 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, published on 12 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which an input index value is incorrectly validated which may lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-129

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5959?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5959?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5959 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-2020-5959 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

• CVE-2021-1080 Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software High 7.8
• CVE-2021-1081 Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software High 7.8
• CVE-2021-1082 Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software High 7.8
• CVE-2021-1083 Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software High 7.8
• CVE-2021-1084 Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3g3h-c682-r9g7.