CVE-2021-1102 Denial of service in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software

Medium 5.5 Published 21 Jul 2021 Updated 3 Aug 2024

A floating point exception in NVIDIA vGPU Manager allows attackers to cause a denial of service, requiring an upgrade to patched versions.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2021-1102?

CVE-2021-1102 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Virtual Gpu, published on 21 Jul 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where it can lead to floating point exceptions, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 12.x (prior to 12.3), version 11.x (prior to 11.5) and version 8.x (prior 8.8).

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1102?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu.

How do I fix CVE-2021-1102?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-1102 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2021-1102 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1102 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-hjcv-9vhv-rjq5.