CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-21814 — Nvidia Geforce security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.1

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver package, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.1 (3.1)
Published
2022-02-07
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-280, CWE-755

Affected products

  • nvidia / geforce
  • nvidia / gpu_display_driver
  • nvidia / nvs
  • nvidia / quadro
  • nvidia / rtx
  • nvidia / tesla

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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