CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0953
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A race condition was discovered in the Linux drivers for Nvidia graphics which allowed an attacker to exfiltrate kernel memory to userspace. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.
Affected configurations
• nvidia display driver (< 295.53)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373 Exploit, Third Party Advisory