CVE-2021-1077 Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

Medium 6.6 Published 21 Apr 2021 Updated 3 Aug 2024

An attacker can cause a denial of service in NVIDIA GPU drivers due to incorrect reference count updates.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2021-1077?

CVE-2021-1077 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 21 Apr 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, R450 and R460 driver branch, contains a vulnerability where the software uses a reference count to manage a resource that is incorrectly updated, which may lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1077?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Display Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2021-1077?

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-2021-1077 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1077 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Nvidia Gpu Display Driver vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-1077, GHSA-w9fh-pf7x-f7hw, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-1077.