CVE-2012-4225 (GCVE-0-2012-4225)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-19 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
6 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
Date Public
2012-08-01 00:00
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