Description
NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4 ↗
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 ↗
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml ↗
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 ↗