Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2022 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2022-28192

Medium 4.1

In plain English

A medium-severity use-after-free in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28192
Debian:13nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28192
Debian:14nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28192
Debian:12nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-390390.151-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-418-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-430no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-440no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server450.191.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-455no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-460no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470470.129.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470-server470.129.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-510510.73.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-510-server510.73.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28192

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming vGPU version 14.x (prior to 14.1), version 13.x (prior to 13.3) and version 11.x (prior 11.8).

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References