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<!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 count="1">2012-06-23</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
      "&gt;=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>
