CVE-2022-42259

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko), where an integer overflow may lead to denial of service.

How to fix CVE-2022-42259

To remediate CVE-2022-42259, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/nvidia-graphics-drivers—upgrade to 470.161.03-1 or later
• Debian/nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx—upgrade to 390.157-1~deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 510.108.03-1 or later
• —no fix listed
• —upgrade to 450.216.04-1~deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 460.106.00-3 or later
• —upgrade to 470.161.03-1~deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 515.86.01-1 or later

Is CVE-2022-42259 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (8)

• from 0, < 470.161.03-1
• from 0, < 390.157-1~deb11u1
• from 0, < 510.108.03-1
• from 0
• from 0, < 450.216.04-1~deb11u1
• from 0, < 460.106.00-3
• from 0, < 470.161.03-1~deb11u1
• from 0, < 515.86.01-1

CVSS scores

References (1)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-42259