CVE-2012-4225

published 2012-11-19

CVE-2012-4225: 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…

Priority P4 30 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

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

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

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	nvidia-graphics-drivers	< nvidia-graphics-drivers 304.37-1 (bookworm)	nvidia-graphics-drivers 304.37-1 (bookworm)
nvidia	unix_graphic_driver	<= 295.71	—
nvidia	unix_graphic_driver	<= 304.32	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 7.2 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.2 HIGH

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