CVE-2012-0953
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-08 00:50
Modified
2024-09-17 01:41
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
A race condition was discovered in the Linux drivers for Nvidia graphics which allowed an attacker to exfiltrate kernel memory to userspace. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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