Published: 19/11/2012 Updated: 22/08/2013

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver prior to 295.71 and prior to 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.

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Debian Bug report logs - #684781 nvidia-glx: CVE-2012-4225: exploitable privilege escalation Package: nvidia-glx; Maintainer for nvidia-glx is Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for nvidia-glx is src:nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <debi ...

CWE-264 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684781 https://nvd.nist.gov

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