Detections
Analytics

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities (USN-4404-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137848

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4404-1 advisory.

 Thomas E. Carroll discovered that the NVIDIA Cuda grpahics driver did not properly perform access control when performing IPC. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-5963)

 It was discovered that the UVM driver in the NVIDIA graphics driver contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-5967)

 It was discovered that the NVIDIA virtual GPU guest drivers contained an unspecified vulnerability that could potentially lead to privileged operation execution. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-5973)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-4404-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137848

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4404-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2020

Updated: 8/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5963

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-cfg1-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-driver-440, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-fbc1-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-utils-440, 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:libnvidia-common-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcuda1-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-no-dkms-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-ifr1-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-compute-utils-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-utils-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-gl-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-driver-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-no-dkms-430, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-gl-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-common-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-decode-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-common-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-dkms-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-opencl-icd-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-cfg1-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-decode-430, 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-fbc1-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-compute-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-encode-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-compute-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-encode-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-libopencl1-384, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-compute-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-ifr1-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-headless-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-encode-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-ifr1-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-utils-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-compute-utils-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-440, 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-dkms-430, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-extra-440, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-driver-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnvidia-decode-390, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-dkms-440

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5963, CVE-2020-5967, CVE-2020-5973

IAVA: 2020-A-0290-S

USN: 4404-1