CVE-2024-0074 CVE
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow in the NVIDIA GPU driver, causing denial of service and data tampering.
- 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-2024-0074?
CVE-2024-0074 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in nvidia GPU Display driver, vGPU driver, Cloud Gaming driver, published on 27 Mar 2024. 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 where an attacker may access a memory location after the end of the buffer. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service and data tampering.
Weakness: CWE-788
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0074?
How do I fix CVE-2024-0074?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-0074 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0074 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-0074, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0074.