Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201206-19 (nvidia-drivers)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201206-19. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

CVE-2012-0946

The CVE-2012-0946 issue affects the NVIDIA UNIX driver (pre-295.40). The vulnerability arises from how the driver handles read/write access to GPU device nodes, enabling local users to access arbitrary system memory locations. This can lead to local privilege escalation or arbitrary memory disclo...