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Vulnerability · Published Nov 18, 2022 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2022-31606

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity out-of-bounds write in NVIDIA Cloud Gaming (guest driver) from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape, where a failure to properly validate data might allow an attacker with basic user capabilities to cause an out-of-bounds access in kernel mode, which could lead to denial of service, information disclosure, escalation of privileges, or data tampering.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-418-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-430no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-440no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-455no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-460no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-31606

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA NVIDIA Cloud Gaming (guest driver) All versions prior to the August 2022 release

Weakness: CWE-787 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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