A vulnerability in NVIDIA drivers may allow a local attacker to gain escalated privileges.
Package | x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 295.40 |
Unaffected versions | >= 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"
Release date
June 23, 2012
Latest revision
June 23, 2012: 1
Severity
high
Exploitable
local
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