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<glsa id="201402-02">
  <title>NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A NVIDIA drivers bug allows unprivileged user-mode software to
    access the GPU inappropriately, allowing for privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nvidia-drivers</product>
  <announced>2014-02-02</announced>
  <revised count="3">2014-03-13</revised>
  <bug>493448</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">331.20</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">319.76</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">304.116</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">304.119</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">304.121</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">331.20</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic
      boards.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The vulnerability is caused due to the driver allowing unprivileged
      user-mode software to access the GPU.
    </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 Drivers users using the 331 branch should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20"
    </code>
    
    <p>All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 319 branch  should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.76"
    </code>
    
    <p>All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 304 branch should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5986">CVE-2013-5986</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5987">CVE-2013-5987</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-12-14T04:12:07Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-03-13T06:49:59Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
</glsa>
