CVE-2021-1055 Information disclosure in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

What is CVE-2021-1055?

CVE-2021-1055 is a medium-severity 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, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which improper access control may lead to denial of service and information disclosure.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1055?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2021-1055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-1055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-1055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1055 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 GHSA-2vxc-vwwx-rxpx.