CVE-2022-28185 vulnerability in NVIDIA Products
Published on May 17, 2022
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the ECC layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause an out-of-bounds write, which may lead to denial of service and data tampering.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-28185 can be exploited with local system access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2022-28185 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-28185
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver Version All GPU Driver versions for Windows and Linux is affected by CVE-2022-28185Exploit Probability
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