CVE-2022-34667: Security Bulletin: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit - October 2022

Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID

Description

Base Score

Vector

CVE‑2022‑34667

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit SDK contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in cuobjdump, where an unprivileged remote attacker could exploit this buffer overflow condition by persuading a local user to download a specially crafted corrupted file and execute cuobjdump against it locally, which may lead to a limited denial of service and some loss of data integrity for the local user.

4.4

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

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Security Updates

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

Download the update from the CUDA Toolkit Downloads page to apply the security update.

CVE IDs Addressed

Software Product

Operating System

Affected Versions

Updated Version

CVE‑2022‑34667

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

Linux and Windows

All versions prior to 11.8

11.8

Notes

• Earlier software releases of this product are also affected. If you are using an earlier release, upgrade to the latest release.

Acknowledgements

CVE‑2022‑34667: NVIDIA thanks hjy79425575 for reporting this issue.

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Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

October 5, 2022

Initial release

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