CVE-2021-1053 Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

What is CVE-2021-1053?

CVE-2021-1053 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Driver, published on 8 Jan 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape or IOCTL in which improper validation of a user pointer may lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1053?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2021-1053?

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-2021-1053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1053 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-2021-1053, GHSA-532j-chqw-wcpw, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-1053.