CVE-2018-6253

medium

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-02

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H