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CVE-2020-5967 json

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the UVM driver, in which a race condition may lead to a denial o…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27121

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the UVM driver, in which a race condition may lead to a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • nvidia quadro_firmware 390.138, 440.100, 450.51
  • nvidia tesla_firmware 418.152.00, 440.95.01, 450.51.05
  • nvidia geforce_firmware 390.138, 440.100, 450.51
  • nvidia nvs_firmware 390.138, 440.100, 450.51
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 440.100-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-5967

  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 390.138-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 440.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5967

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.