CVE-2022-21814 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
An unprivileged local user can gain limited write access to protected memory, leading to denial of service and potential privilege escalation.
- 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-2022-21814?
CVE-2022-21814 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 7 Feb 2022. 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 Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver package, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21814?
It affects 6 products.
Products include Nvidia Geforce, Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, Nvidia Nvs, Nvidia Quadro, Nvidia Rtx, Nvidia Tesla.
How do I fix CVE-2022-21814?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-21814 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21814 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21814, GHSA-m8cj-m32x-wpwv, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21814.