Executive Summary

Summary
Title NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201402-02 First vendor Publication 2014-02-02
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-02-02
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A NVIDIA drivers bug allows unprivileged user-mode software to access the GPU inappropriately, allowing for privilege escalation.

Background

The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards.

Description

The vulnerability is caused due to the driver allowing unprivileged user-mode software to access the GPU.

Impact

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 331 branch should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 319 branch should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.76"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 304 branch should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-5986 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5986
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-5987 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5987

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-02.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-02.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 1

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2014-02-27 IAVM : 2014-A-0030 - Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2014-001
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0044547
2014-02-06 IAVM : 2014-B-0011 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Graphics Driver
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0043922

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-02-25 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes a certificate validat...
File : macosx_10_9_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-25 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes multiple security vul...
File : macosx_SecUpd2014-001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-13 Name : The remote host has a driver installed that is affected by a local privilege ...
File : nvidia_cve_2013_5987.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-13 Name : The remote host has a driver installed that is affected by a local privilege ...
File : nvidia_unix_cve_2013_5987.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:07
  • Multiple Updates
2014-02-02 21:20:46
  • First insertion