What is CVE-2019-5696?

CVE-2019-5696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Vgpu Display Driver, classified under Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-11-09.

How severe is CVE-2019-5696?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in NVIDIA Vgpu Display Driver

CVE-2019-5696

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager, all versions, contains a vulnerability in which the provision of an incorrectly sized buffer by a guest VM leads to GPU out-of-bound access, which may lead to a denial of service.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nvidia Vgpu Display Driver — versions All
Nvidia Virtual_gpu_manager

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-131 — Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

References

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-5696?: CVE-2019-5696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Vgpu Display Driver, classified under Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-11-09.
How severe is CVE-2019-5696?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.