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CVE-2021-34397 (GCVE-0-2021-34397)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-22 21:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:12
VLAI
Summary
Bootloader contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA MB2, which may cause free-the-wrong-heap, which may lead to limited denial of service.
Severity
1.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • denial of service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson TX2 series, TX2 NX, AGX Xavier series, Xavier NX Affected: All Jetson Linux versions prior to r32.5.1
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