Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - February 2019

NVIDIA has released a software security update for the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver. This update addresses issues that may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, code execution, or information disclosure. To protect your system, download and install this software update through NVIDIA Driver Downloads. Go to NVIDIA Product Security.

Details

This section summarizes the potential impact that this security update addresses. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors follow CVSS V3 standards.

CVE	Description	Base Score	CVSS V3 Vector
CVE‑2019‑5665	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display driver contains a vulnerability in the 3D vision component in which the stereo service software, when opening a file, does not check for hard links. This behavior may lead to code execution, denial of service or escalation of privileges.	8.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5666	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) create context command DDI DxgkDdiCreateContext in which the product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.	8.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5667	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiSetRootPageTable in which the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, which may lead to code execution, denial of service or escalation of privileges.	8.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5668	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiSubmitCommandVirtual in which the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.	8.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5669	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software uses a sequential operation to read from or write to a buffer, but it uses an incorrect length value that causes it to access memory that is outside of the bounds of the buffer, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.	8.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5670	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software uses a sequential operation to read from or write to a buffer, but it uses an incorrect length value that causes it to access memory that is outside of the bounds of the buffer which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, code execution or information disclosure.	7.8	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2019‑5671	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which the software does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, which may lead to denial of service.	6.5	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE‑2018‑6260	NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability that may allow access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the GPU performance counters. Local user access is required. This vulnerability is not a network or remote attack vector.	2.2

AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

The NVIDIA 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 to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the software products and versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Windows

CVEs Addressed	Software Product	Operating System	Affected Versions	Updated Versions
CVE‑2019‑5665 through CVE‑2019‑5671 CVE‑2018‑6260	GeForce	Windows	All R418 versions prior to 419.17	419.17
CVE‑2019‑5665 through CVE‑2019‑5671 CVE‑2018‑6260	Quadro, NVS	Windows	All R418 versions prior to 419.17	419.17
All R400 versions prior to 412.29	412.29
CVE‑2019‑5665 CVE‑2019‑5667 through CVE‑2019‑5671 CVE‑2018‑6260	Quadro, NVS	Windows	All R390 versions prior to 392.37	392.37
CVE‑2019‑5665 through CVE‑2019‑5671 CVE‑2018‑6260	Tesla	Windows	All R418 versions prior to 418.96	418.96
All R400 versions prior to 412.29	412.29
CVE‑2019‑5667 through CVE‑2019‑5671 CVE‑2018‑6260	vGPU 4.x	Windows, Windows Server with Hyper-V	vGPU releases prior to 4.8	4.8 (contains Windows driver version 370.35)

Linux

CVE Addressed	Software Product	Operating System	Affected Versions	Updated Versions
CVE‑2018‑6260	GeForce	Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris	All R418 versions prior to 418.43	418.43
All R400 versions prior to 410.104	410.104
All R390 versions prior to 390.116	390.116
Quadro, NVS	Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris	All R418 versions prior to 418.43	418.43
All R400 versions prior to 410.104	410.104
All R390 versions prior to 390.116	390.116
Tesla	Linux	All R418 versions prior to 418.39	418.39
All R400 versions prior to 410.104	410.104
All R396 versions prior to 396.82	396.82
All R390 versions prior to 390.116	390.116
All R384 versions prior to 384.183	384.183
vGPU 4.x	Linux	vGPU releases prior to 4.8	4.8 (contains Linux driver version 367.130)
Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, Huawei FusionCompute, Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM	vGPU releases prior to 4.8	4.8 (contains Virtual GPU Manager version 367.130)

Notes:

• Affected versions include the versions listed and all earlier branches and releases.
• If you are using an unsupported version or an earlier unsupported branch, upgrade to the latest supported version. To identify products that are no longer supported, check the product EOL pages Windows legacy GPU releases and UNIX legacy GPU releases, or contact NVIDIA Support.
• The table above may not be a comprehensive list of all impacted software versions or driver branches and may be updated as more information becomes available.
• Your computer hardware vendor may provide you with a driver version not listed in the table above. If so, check the vendor’s security bulletin to determine which versions from the vendor contain the security updates.
• If you are an Enterprise Services customer using an NVIDIA DGX system, visit the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal for guidance.
• After installing the security update more action is required for CVE-2018-6260:
  • Windows Graphics Driver

Refer to the Developer->Manage GPU Performance Counters section of the _NVIDIA Control Panel Help _ for the additional steps required.

If you are an enterprise customer, refer to the instructions in the Product Release Notes.

* **Linux Graphics Driver**

Refer to the Restricting Access to GPU Performance Counters section of the Linux driver Readme.

* **NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software**

Refer to Restricting Access to GPU Performance Counters in the release notes for the hypervisor that you are using.

Mitigations

None. See Security Updates for the versions to install.

Acknowledgements

CVE-2018-6260: NVIDIA thanks Hoda Naghibijouybari, Ajaya Neupane, Zhiyun Qian, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh for reporting this issue.

CVE-2019-5665: NVIDIA thanks Christoffer Wiman for reporting this issue.