Security Bulletin: Windows Privilege Impersonation Check affects NVIDIA Windows Device Driver for use on NVIDIA PCIe cards installed in System x servers (CVE-2015-1170)

Summary The NVIDIA Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Display Driver's kernel administrator check improperly validates local client impersonation levels in some cases when using the NVIDIA Windows Device Driver for use on NVIDIA PCIe cards installed in System x Servers. NVIDIA's PCIe cards are...

CVE-2015-1170

CVE-2015-1170 affects NVIDIA Display Driver on Windows, where the kernel administrator check fails to validate local impersonation levels, enabling a local attacker with access to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls. Affected driver branches include R304 (pre-309.08), R340 (pr...