| Name | CVE-2018-3979 |
| Description | A remote denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the way the Nouveau Display Driver (the default Ubuntu Nvidia display driver) handles GPU shader execution. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause remote denial-of-service issues. An attacker can provide a specially crafted website to trigger this vulnerability. This vulnerability can be triggered remotely after the user visits a malformed website. No further user interaction is required. Vulnerable versions include Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64), Nouveau Display Driver NV117 (vermagic: 4.15.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (PTS) | bullseye | 1:1.0.17-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:1.0.17-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.0.17-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0647
Nouveau is a reverse-engineered, best effort driver, negligible security impact