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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-3904-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122716

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3904-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled the GPU performance counters. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to access the application data processed on the GPU.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3904-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122716

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3904-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-compute-utils-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-cfg1-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcuda1-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-ifr1-390, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-dkms-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-common-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-opencl-icd-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-fbc1-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-compute-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-encode-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-libopencl1-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-utils-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-gl-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-no-dkms-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-driver-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-decode-390

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6260

USN: 3904-1