CVE-2012-4225

NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver < 295.71 - Arbitrary Physical Memory Write via VGA Window Modification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4

Scores

EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
nvidia/unix_graphic_driver < 295.71
Published Nov 19, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026