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CVE-2022-36280

Updated on 09 Sep 2022

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

An out-of-bounds(OOB) memory access vulnerability was found in vmwgfx driver in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_kms.c in GPU component in the Linux kernel with device file ‘/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dxxx)’. This flaw allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain privilege, causing a denial of service(DoS).

Details

Affected product:
CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+6 more)
An out-of-bounds(OOB) memory access vulnerability was found in vmwgfx driver in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_kms.c in GPU component in the Linux kernel with device file ‘/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dxxx)’. This flaw allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain privilege, causing a denial of service(DoS).

Fixes