CVE-2021-34402: NVIDIA Shield Experience

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA NVDEC, where a user with high privileges might be able to read from or write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the buffer, which may lead to denial of service, Information disclosure, loss of Integrity, or possible escalation of privileges.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Shield Experience: before 9.0 (fixed in 9.0)

Published 2022-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.