The following sections summarize the vulnerabilities. Descriptions use CWE™ and risk assessments follow CVSS.
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where an attacker can write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, which may lead to an escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 8.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 8.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the i2c-hid
driver where an attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, which may lead to an escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 8.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA OpenMax Component contains a vulnerability in LIBNVOMX.SO
where an attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, which may lead to an escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 8.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where an input buffer is copied to an output buffer without checking the size of the input buffer, which may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:R
NVIDIA Tegra kernel contains a vulnerability in DRM driver where the driver performs a calculation to determine how much memory to allocate, but an integer overflow can occur that causes less memory to be allocated than expected, which may lead to a buffer overflow possibly causing a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra Kernel Driver contains a vulnerability in NVAVP
where the buffer size allocated is incorrectly calculated for the size to be used, which could lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the i2c-hid
driver where an attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, which may lead to possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA camera where the buffer being overwritten is allocated to the heap portion of the memory, which may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.6
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.7
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the Tegra Display Controller driver where an input buffer is copied to an output buffer without checking the size of the input buffer, which may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where an integer overflow to buffer overflow may cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA OpenMax Component contains a vulnerability in the Video Decoder driver library libnvmmlite_video.so
where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and is used as the index to an array, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA crypto driver where an input buffer is copied to an output buffer without checking the size of the input buffer, which may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA camera where the buffer being overwritten is allocated to the stack, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where untrusted data can change between validation and use which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra Kernel Driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST
that may occur when the application executes a NULL
pointer dereference expected to be valid but is NULL
, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where there is the potential to read from or write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the buffer, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA camera kernel mode driver where a calculation to determine memory allocation improperly executes and allots less memory than needed, causing a buffer overflow, which may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: 6.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra Kernel driver contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA camera kernel driver where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: 6.7
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA ADSP Firmware contains a vulnerability in the ADSP Loader component where there is the potential to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the buffer, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 6.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA Camera where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack, which may lead to a local permanent denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA OpenMax Component contains a vulnerability in LIBNVRM
where there is the potential to read or write a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score 6.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.0
CVSS Temporal Score: 6.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA cryptodev
where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: 5.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra Kernel Driver contains a vulnerability where the DVS Framework does not validate or incorrectly validates input that can affect the control flow or data flow of a program, which may lead to a possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: 5.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra Kernel Driver contains a vulnerability in MMC Driver that may occur when the application executes a NULL
pointer dereference expected to be valid but is NULL
, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: 4.6
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP
where uninitialized stack memory may be leaked to the user, which may lead to possible information disclosure.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: 3.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Jetson L4T has addressed Linux vulnerabilities that have been referred to as “BlueBorne.” For more information about these issues, visit the Ubuntu® website.
Jetson L4T has addressed several Linux vulnerabilities in Dnsmasq. For more information about these issues visit the Ubuntu® website.
NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration. NVIDIA doesn’t know of any exploits to these issues at this time.