NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where an unprivileged regular user can cause truncation errors when casting a primitive to a primitive of smaller size causes data to be lost in the conversion, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure.
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Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify files, and then escalate privileges, execute code, tamper with or steal data, or even take over your device. In total, the chipmaker patched 29 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Linux products, including 10 high-severity bugs. Nvidia doesn't publish a ton of technical information about the flaws to ensure that customers can patch their systems before ...