Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-3979 First vendor Publication 2019-04-01
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-09

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.5
Base Score 6.5 Environmental Score 6.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 6.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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).

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3979

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2020-12-05 TRUFFLEHUNTER TALOS-2018-0647 attack attempt
RuleID : 47443 - Revision : 1 - Type : BROWSER-OTHER
2020-12-05 TRUFFLEHUNTER TALOS-2018-0647 attack attempt
RuleID : 47442 - Revision : 1 - Type : BROWSER-OTHER

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0647

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Date Informations
2023-02-09 09:27:51
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2022-04-20 00:23:29
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2021-05-04 13:15:36
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2021-04-22 02:29:41
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2020-12-05 21:23:47
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2020-05-23 01:13:42
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2019-04-09 17:19:12
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2019-04-02 05:18:42
  • First insertion