CVE-2015-1170 (GCVE-0-2015-1170)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-06 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:33
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Summary
The NVIDIA Display Driver R304 before 309.08, R340 before 341.44, R343 before 345.20, and R346 before 347.52 does not properly validate local client impersonation levels when performing a "kernel administrator check," which allows local users to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-02-23 00:00
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