CVE-2016-8429

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-2016-8429

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-2016-8429

CVE-2016-8429 concerns the NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver (NVMAP) in Android. The connected NVIDIA bulletins describe a memory safety issue in NVMAP where memory references after free can lead to denial of service and possible privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to execute code in the ker...