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Gentoo FoundationGLSA-201402-02

HistoryFeb 02, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation

2014-02-0200:00:00

Gentoo Foundation

security.gentoo.org

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

65.2%

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Background

The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards.

Description

The vulnerability is caused due to the driver allowing unprivileged user-mode software to access the GPU.

Impact

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 331 branch should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 319 branch should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.76"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 304 branch should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116"

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallx11-drivers/nvidia-drivers< 331.20UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Gentoo	any	all	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers	< 331.20	UNKNOWN

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

65.2%

JSON

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