CVE-2020-5967 Race condition in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

What is CVE-2020-5967?

CVE-2020-5967 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the UVM driver, in which a race condition may lead to a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5967?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Nvidia Geforce Firmware, Nvidia Nvs Firmware, Nvidia Quadro Firmware, Nvidia Tesla Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5967?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-5967 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5967 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-5967, GHSA-xmqv-9j73-gq5h, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5967.