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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-19">
<title>NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in NVIDIA drivers may allow a local attacker to
gain escalated privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">nvidia-drivers</product>
<announced>2012-06-23</announced>
<revised>2012-06-23: 1</revised>
<bug>411617</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">295.40</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">295.40</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic
boards.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability has been found in the way NVIDIA drivers handle
read/write access to GPU device nodes, allowing access to arbitrary
system memory locations.
</p>
<p>NOTE: Exposure to this vulnerability is reduced in Gentoo due to 660
permissions being used on the GPU device nodes by default.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All NVIDIA driver users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.40"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0946">CVE-2012-0946</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="2012-04-18T00:15:12Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="2012-06-23T14:21:13Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
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