For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products,...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 8, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys for Windows or nvidia.ko for Linux) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
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