🛡️ CVE-2022-42264 on Debian — nvidia-graphics-drivers

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause the use of an out-of-range pointer offset, which may lead to data tampering, data loss, information disclosure, or denial of service.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-42264 as tracked by Debian, for the package nvidia-graphics-drivers. The fix is available in version 510.108.03-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42264 is classified as CWE-823: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset. The product performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42264 is recorded against 7 packages.

  • nvidia-graphics-drivers (fixed in 510.108.03-1)
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla (fixed in 510.108.03-1)
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-418
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-450 (fixed in 450.216.04-1~deb11u1)
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-460 (fixed in 460.106.00-3)
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 (fixed in 470.161.03-1)
  • nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules (fixed in 515.86.01-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-42264 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nvidia-graphics-drivers — 510.108.03-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla — 510.108.03-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-418 — —
nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-450 — 450.216.04-1~deb11u1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-460 — 460.106.00-3
nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 — 470.161.03-1
nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules — 515.86.01-1

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