CVE-2025-23300 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause a null pointer dereference by allocating a specific memory resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Nvidia	Display Driver

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References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23300
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23300

History

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Nvidia Nvidia display Driver
Vendors & Products		Nvidia Nvidia display Driver

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause a null pointer dereference by allocating a specific memory resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
Weaknesses		CWE-476
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23300 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23300
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

Published: 2025-10-23T18:24:21.817Z

Updated: 2025-10-23T19:05:17.293Z

Reserved: 2025-01-14T01:06:26.350Z

Link: CVE-2025-23300

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-23T19:05:13.415Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-23T19:15:49.580

Modified: 2025-10-23T19:15:49.580

Link: CVE-2025-23300

Redhat

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