CVE-2012-4225 (GCVE-0-2012-4225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-19 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:28
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-08-01 00:00
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