CVE-2016-8427

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...

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-2016-8427

CVE-2016-8427 affects the NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver (NVHOST). The connected NVIDIA bulletin entry for CVE-2016-8427 notes a memory-after-free vulnerability in NVHOST that can lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges, enabling a local attacker to execute code in kernel context. The i...

CVE-2016-8427

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...