ALAS-2019-1182

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-6260  

NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability that may allow access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the GPU performance counters. Local user access is required. This is not a network or remote attack vector. (CVE-2018-6260)

ALAS-2019-1182


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1182
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-21 19:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-25 22:47 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2018-6260 

Issue Overview:

NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability that may allow access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the GPU performance counters. Local user access is required. This is not a network or remote attack vector. (CVE-2018-6260)


Affected Packages:

nvidia


Issue Correction:
Run yum update nvidia to update your system.

New Packages:
src:
    nvidia-410.104-2018.03.111.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    nvidia-dkms-410.104-2018.03.111.amzn1.x86_64
    nvidia-410.104-2018.03.111.amzn1.x86_64