Medium: nvidia

2012-04-3014:47:00

alas.aws.amazon.com

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

24.9%

JSON

Issue Overview:

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

Affected Packages:

nvidia

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

New Packages:

src:  
    nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    nvidia-kmod-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1-295.40-1.1.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-0946

Mitre: CVE-2012-0946

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Amazon Linux1x86_64nvidia< 295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64nvidia-kmod< 295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1nvidia-kmod-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1< 295.40-1.1.amzn1nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1-295.40-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	nvidia	< 295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1	nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	nvidia-kmod	< 295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1	nvidia-kmod-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1	< 295.40-1.1.amzn1	nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1-295.40-1.1.amzn1.x86_64.rpm