Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

CVE-2016-6775

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

CVE-2016-6775

Summary: CVE-2016-6775 is a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver (NVMAP) where referencing memory after it has been freed may lead to a denial of service or a local privilege escalation. The issue arises from a use-after-free condition in the NVMAP memory handling, enabling a local att...