CVE-2022-28191 Denial of service in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming
An unprivileged user can trigger uncontrolled resource consumption in the NVIDIA vGPU kernel module, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2022-28191?
CVE-2022-28191 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Virtual Gpu, published on 17 May 2022. 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 (nvidia.ko), where uncontrolled resource consumption can be triggered by an unprivileged regular user, which may lead to denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28191?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu.
How do I fix CVE-2022-28191?
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-2022-28191 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28191 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Virtual Gpu
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28191, GHSA-693p-qr5p-6w3v, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191.