CVE-2020-5989 Null dereference in NVIDIA vGPU Software

What is CVE-2020-5989?

CVE-2020-5989 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA vGPU Software, published on 2 Oct 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 contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which it can dereference a NULL pointer, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5989?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5989?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5989 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-5989 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5989 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA vGPU Software

• 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-gggj-chjh-w3jf.