7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
12.7%
NVIDIA has released a software security update for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver. This update addresses issues that may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, escalation of privileges, code execution, or data tampering.
To protect your system, download and install this software update through the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page or, for the vGPU software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming updates, through the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.
Go to NVIDIA Product Security.
This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.
CVE IDs | Description | Base Score | Vector |
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CVE‑2022‑31606 | 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. |
7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31607 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko ), where a local user with basic capabilities can cause improper input validation, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, data tampering, and limited information disclosure. |
7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31608 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in an optional D-Bus configuration file, where a local user with basic capabilities can impact protected D-Bus endpoints, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. | 7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31610 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys ), where a local user with basic capabilities can cause an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering. |
7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31617 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys ), where a local user with basic capabilities can cause an out-of-bounds read, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering. |
7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31612 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys ) handler for DxgkDdiEscape, where a local user with basic capabilities can cause an out-of-bounds read, which may lead to a system crash or a leak of internal kernel information. |
7.1 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31613 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where any local user can cause a null-pointer dereference, which may lead to a kernel panic. | 7.1 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑34665 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a local user with basic capabilities can cause a null-pointer dereference, 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‑2022‑34666 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a local user with basic capabilities can cause a null-pointer dereference, 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‑2022‑31616 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys ) handler for DxgkDdiEscape, where a local user with basic capabilities can cause an out-of-bounds read, which may lead to denial of service, or information disclosure. |
6.1 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31615 | NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a local user with basic capabilities can cause a null-pointer dereference, which may lead to denial of service. | 5.5 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
CVE IDs | Description | Base Score | Vector |
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CVE‑2022‑31609 | NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where it allows the guest VM to allocate resources for which the guest is not authorized. This vulnerability may lead to loss of data integrity and confidentiality, denial of service, or information disclosure. | 7.8 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31614 | NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) where it may double-free some resources. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability with other vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, code execution, and information disclosure. | 7.0 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
CVE‑2022‑31618
| NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where it can dereference a null pointer, which may lead to denial of service. | 5.5 | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk to your specific configuration.
The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Windows driver branch.
Windows Driver Branch | CVE IDs Addressed |
---|---|
R515, R510, R470, R450 | CVE‑2022‑31606, CVE‑2022‑31610, CVE‑2022‑31612, CVE‑2022‑31613, CVE‑2022‑31616, CVE‑2022‑31617, CVE‑2022‑34665, CVE‑2022‑34666 |
The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Windows driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.
Software Product | Operating System | Driver Branch | Affected Driver Versions | Updated Driver Version |
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GeForce | Windows | R515 | All driver versions prior to 516.94 | 516.94 |
Windows 10 and 11 | R470 | All driver versions prior to 473.81 | 473.81 | |
Windows 7 and 8.x | R470 | All driver versions prior to 473.81 for support of desktop Kepler-series GPUs | 473.81 | |
Studio | Windows | R515 | All driver versions prior to 516.94 | 516.94 |
NVIDIA RTX/Quadro, NVS | Windows | R515 | All driver versions prior to 516.94 | 516.94 |
R510 | All driver versions prior to 513.46 | 513.46 | ||
R470 | All driver versions prior to 473.81 | 473.81 | ||
Tesla | Windows | R515 | All driver versions prior to 516.94 | 516.94 |
R510 | All driver versions prior to 513.46 | 513.46 | ||
R470 | All driver versions prior to 472.81 | 473.81 | ||
R450 | All driver versions prior to 453.64 | 453.64 |
The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Linux driver branch.
Linux Driver Branch | CVE IDs Addressed |
---|---|
R515, R510, R470, R450, R390 | CVE‑2022‑31607, CVE‑2022‑31608, CVE‑2022‑31615 |
The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Linux driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.
Software Product | Operating System | Driver Branch | Affected Driver Versions | Updated Driver Version |
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GeForce | Linux | R515 | All driver versions prior to 515.65.01 | 515.65.01 |
R510 | All driver versions prior to 510.85.02 | 510.85.02 | ||
R470 | All driver versions prior to 470.141.03 | 470.141.03 | ||
R390 | All driver versions prior to 390.154 | 390.154 | ||
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS | Linux | R515 | All driver versions prior to 515.65.01 | 515.65.01 |
R510 | All driver versions prior to 510.85.02 | 510.85.02 | ||
R470 | All driver versions prior to 470.141.03 | 470.141.03 | ||
R390 | All driver versions prior to 390.154 | 390.154 | ||
Tesla | Linux | R515 | All driver versions prior to 515.65.01 | 515.65.01 |
R510 | All driver versions prior to 510.85.02 | 510.85.02 | ||
R470 | All driver versions prior to 470.141.03 | 470.141.03 | ||
R450 | All driver versions prior to 450.203.03 | 450.203.03 | ||
Notes: |
The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update. Log in to the NVIDIA Enterprise Application Hub to download updates from the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.
CVE IDs Addressed | Software Product | Operating System | Affected Versions | Updated Version |
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vGPU Software | Driver | vGPU Software | Driver | |
CVE‑2022‑31606 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31610 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31612 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31616 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31617 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | vGPU software (guest driver) | Windows | All versions prior to and including 14.1 | 512.78 |
All versions prior to and including 13.3 | 473.47 | 13.4 | 473.81 | |
All versions prior to and including 11.8 | 453.51 | 11.9 | 453.64 | |
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | vGPU software (guest driver) | Linux | All versions prior to and including 14.1 | 510.73.08 |
All versions prior to and including 13.3 | 470.129.06 | 13.4 | 470.141.03 | |
All versions prior to and including 11.8 | 450.191.01 | 11.9 | 450.203.02 | |
CVE‑2022‑31609 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31614 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31618 | vGPU software (Virtual GPU Manager) | Citrix Hypervisor, | ||
VMware vSphere, | ||||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM | All versions prior to and including 14.1 | 510.73.06 | 14.2 | 510.85.03 |
All versions prior to and including 13.3 | 470.129.04 | 13.4 | 470.141.05 | |
All versions prior to and including 11.8 | 450.191 | 11.9 | 450.203 |
Notes:
The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.
CVE IDs Addressed | Software Product | Operating System | Affected Versions | Updated Version |
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Cloud Gaming Software | Driver | Cloud Gaming Software | Driver | |
CVE‑2022‑31606 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31610 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31612 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31616 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31617 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | NVIDIA Cloud Gaming (guest driver) | Windows | All versions prior to the August 2022 release | All versions prior to 516.94 |
CVE‑2022‑31607 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | NVIDIA Cloud Gaming (guest driver) | Linux | All versions prior to the August 2022 release | All versions prior to 515.65.01 |
CVE‑2022‑31607 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31609 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31613 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑31614 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34665 | ||||
CVE‑2022‑34666 | NVIDIA Cloud Gaming(Virtual GPU Manager) | Citrix Hypervisor, | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM | All versions prior to the August 2022 release | All versions prior to 515.65.01 | August 2022 release | 515.65.01 |
NVIDIA thanks the following people for reporting the issues to us: