Updated nvidia driver packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability has been found in the nvidia proprietary driver that could be used to allow a local, non-privileged user to corrupt kernel memory. This could be used to gain local root privileges. A local user can issue a specially crafted IOCTL to write a 32-bit integer value stored in the kerne...

SiS / XGI display managers privilege escalation

IOCTL privilege escalation...

KL-001-2015-003 : SiS Windows VGA Display Manager Multiple Privilege Escalation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 KL-001-2015-003 : SiS Windows VGA Display Manager Multiple Privilege Escalation Title: SiS Windows VGA Display Manager Multiple Privilege Escalation Advisory ID: KL-001-2015-003 Publication Date: 2015.09.01 Publication URL:...

KL-001-2015-004 : XGI Windows VGA Display Manager Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 KL-001-2015-004 : XGI Windows VGA Display Manager Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation Title: XGI Windows VGA Display Manager Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation Advisory ID: KL-001-2015-004 Publication Date: 2015.09.01 Publication URL:...

[CORE-2015-0013] - FortiClient Antivirus Multiple Vulnerabilities

Advisory Information Title: FortiClient Antivirus Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2015-0013 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/forticlient-antivirus-multiple-vulnerabilities Date published: 2015-09-01 Date of last update: 2015-09-01 Vendors contacted: Fortinet...

PT-2015-7654

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.3.3 Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, due to the vivid fb ioctl function in drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c not...

PT-2015-7655

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.3.3 Description The issue is related to the dgnc mgmt ioctl function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize a certain structure member. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7799

The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call...

Design/Logic Flaw

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

Null pointer dereference

The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call...

CVE-2015-7799

The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call...

CVE-2015-7799

The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7799

The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call...

NVidia graphics drivers privilege escalation

Privilege escalation via IOCTL processing...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5950

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128, R340 before 340.93, and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privilege...

CVE-2015-5950

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128, R340 before 340.93, and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privilege...

CVE-2015-5950

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128, R340 before 340.93, and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privilege...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-2747-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2747-1 advisory. Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root...

CVE-2015-5950

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128, R340 before 340.93, and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privilege...