CVE-2022-42256

Summary

CVECVE-2022-42256
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-30 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-19 01:24:00 UTC
DescriptionNVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko), where an integer overflow in index validation may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, or data tampering.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Citrix Hypervisor - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Application Nvidia Cloud Gaming All All All All
Application Nvidia Virtual Gpu All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine - All All All
Operating System Vmware Vsphere - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
NVIDIA Drivers: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - November 2022 | NVIDIA MISC nvidia.custhelp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181280 Debian Security Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-460 (CVE-2022-42256)
  • 296105 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 63.157.1 Missing (CPUOCT2023)
  • 6140159 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kmod-nvidia (GHSA-7jc3-v42x-qwhr)
  • 710762 Gentoo Linux NVIDIA Drivers Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-02)
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