CVE-2022-28192 Use after free in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming
A use-after-free in NVIDIA vGPU Manager allows privileged attackers to cause denial of service by manipulating host resource freeing sequences.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-28192?
CVE-2022-28192 is a medium-severity use after free 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 it may lead to a use-after-free, which in turn may cause denial of service. This attack is complex to carry out because the attacker needs to have control over freeing some host side resources out of sequence, which requires elevated privileges.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28192?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu.
How do I fix CVE-2022-28192?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2022-28192 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28192 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Virtual Gpu
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28192, GHSA-x88c-8rhx-h8cw, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192.