CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-20292
Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
There is a flaw reported in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9 in drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c in nouveau_sgdma_create_ttm in Nouveau DRM subsystem. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker with a local account with a root privilege, can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute code in the context of the kernel.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux