A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause remote denial-of-service issues. An attacker can provide a specially crafted website to trigger this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered remotely after the user visits a malformed website. No further user interaction is required. Vulnerable versions include Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64), Nouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2019-04-01T20:10:28

Updated: 2024-08-05T04:57:24.572Z

Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-3979

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-04-01T21:30:43.110

Modified: 2023-02-09T01:38:12.100

Link: CVE-2018-3979

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