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CVE-2012-0946

Published: 11 April 2012

The NVIDIA UNIX driver before 295.40 allows local users to access arbitrary memory locations by leveraging GPU device-node read/write privileges.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
driver 96 is for older cards which aren't vulnerable to the issue
jdstrand
-173 is currently not installable or usable on 12.04 LTS. Nvidia
is planning a driver update for this series, which will include the fix for
this issue
tseliot is working on the updates for 12.04 LTS

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
nvidia-graphics-drivers
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Does not exist

lucid
Released (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.2)
maverick Ignored
(end of life)
natty
Released (270.41.06-0ubuntu1.1)
oneiric
Released (280.13-0ubuntu6.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:
upstream: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/patches/security/CVE-2012-0946/



nvidia-graphics-drivers-173
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Does not exist

lucid
Released (173.14.22-0ubuntu11.1)
maverick Ignored
(end of life)
natty
Released (173.14.30-0ubuntu1.1)
oneiric
Released (173.14.30-0ubuntu8.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:

upstream: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/patches/security/CVE-2012-0946/


nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Does not exist

lucid Does not exist

maverick Does not exist

natty Does not exist

oneiric
Released (173.14.30-0ubuntu5.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:


upstream: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/patches/security/CVE-2012-0946/

nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Does not exist

lucid Does not exist

maverick Does not exist

natty Does not exist

oneiric
Released (280.13-0ubuntu5.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:



upstream: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/patches/security/CVE-2012-0946/