NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation

NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation A vulnerability in NVIDIA drivers may allow a local attacker to gain escalated privileges. nvidia-drivers 2012-06-23 2012-06-23 411617 local 295.40 295.40

The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards.

A vulnerability has been found in the way NVIDIA drivers handle read/write access to GPU device nodes, allowing access to arbitrary system memory locations.

NOTE: Exposure to this vulnerability is reduced in Gentoo due to 660 permissions being used on the GPU device nodes by default.

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All NVIDIA driver users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.40"

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