CVE-2021-1106: NVIDIA Jetson Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Linux kernel distributions contain a vulnerability in nvmap, where writes may be allowed to read-only buffers, which may result in escalation of privileges, complete denial of service, unconstrained information disclosure, and serious data tampering of all processes on the system.

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Jetson Linux: from 32.1, before 32.6.1 (fixed in 32.6.1)
  • NVIDIA Shield Experience: before 9.0 (fixed in 9.0)

Published 2021-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.