CVE-2014-8298

Gpu Driver vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

The NVIDIA Linux Discrete GPU drivers before R304.125, R331.x before R331.113, R340.x before R340.65, R343.x before R343.36, and R346.x before R346.22, Linux for Tegra (L4T) driver before R21.2, and Chrome OS driver before R40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and X server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GLX indirect rendering protocol request.

Affected vendor

Nvidia

Affected product

Gpu Driver

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-19

Published

2014-12-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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