CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4225
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.
Affected configurations
• nvidia unix graphic driver (<= 295.71)
• nvidia unix graphic driver (<= 304.32)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 seclists.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4 www.openwall.com
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 seclists.org
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4 www.openwall.com