Vulnerability in NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege

Executive Summary

Microsoft is providing notification of the discovery and remediation of a vulnerability affecting the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D driver. Microsoft discovered and disclosed the vulnerability under coordinated vulnerability disclosure to the affected vendor, NVIDIA. NVIDIA has remediated the vulnerability in their software.

A vulnerability exists when the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D driver does not correctly validate and sanitize specific commands to a named pipe. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run commands in the security context of the Local System and take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights.

Microsoft Vulnerability Research reported this issue to and coordinated with NVIDIA to ensure remediation of this issue. The vulnerability has been assigned the entry CVE-2011-4784, in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list. For more information about updates from NVIDIA, please see the NVIDIA driver download page.

Mitigating Factors

• An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability.
• This vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through email or through a website.