NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation

Background The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards. Description Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA drivers: A vulnerability has been found in the way NVIDIA drivers handle read/write access to GPU device nodes, allowing access to arbitrary system...

USN-1523-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates vulnerability (USN-1420-1)

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- access to arbitrary system memory

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: Security vulnerability CVE-2012-0946 in the NVIDIA UNIX driver was disclosed to NVIDIA on March 20th, 2012. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker who has read and write access to the GPU device nodes to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary...