CVE-2020-5961 Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
An incorrect resource cleanup in the NVIDIA vGPU driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service in the guest virtual machine.
- 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-2020-5961?
CVE-2020-5961 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 vGPU graphics driver for guest OS contains a vulnerability in which an incorrect resource clean up on a failure path can impact the guest VM, leading to denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-459
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5961?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Graphics Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5961?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5961 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-2020-5961 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5961 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2vhp-vv3f-jj79.