CVE-2020-5983 - NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin and the host driver kernel module, in which the potential exists to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the frame buffer memory allocated to guest operating systems, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure

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NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin and the host driver kernel module, in which the potential exists to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the frame buffer memory allocated to guest operating systems, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure

Published Oct 2, 2020

7.1

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.32%

Description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin and the host driver kernel module, in which the potential exists to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the frame buffer memory allocated to guest operating systems, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Affected products

Vendor NVIDIA Product NVIDIA vGPU Software Default
unknown
Affected
- vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Default status is the baseline for the product. Each version can override it (patched versions can be marked unaffected).

Vendor	Product	Default status	Versions
NVIDIA	NVIDIA vGPU Software	unknown	Affected vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-27137
Advisory
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5075
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-27137		Advisory
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5075		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner nvidia

Published Oct 2, 2020

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Jan 7, 2020

Link CVE-2020-5983

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2020-5983

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner nvidia

Published Oct 2, 2020

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Link EUVD-2020-27137

GitHub

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