Executive Summary

Summary
Title NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3662-1 First vendor Publication 2018-05-29
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-05-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - nvidia-graphics-drivers-384: NVIDIA binary X.Org driver

Details:

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained flaws in the kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of service or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10:
nvidia-384 384.130-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
nvidia-384 384.130-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
nvidia-384 384.130-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3662-1
CVE-2018-6249, CVE-2018-6253

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-384/384.130-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-384/384.130-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-384/384.130-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3662-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-07-16 Name : A display driver installed on the remote Linux host is affected by multiple v...
File : nvidia_unix_cve_2018_6248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : A display driver installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple...
File : nvidia_win_cve_2018_6248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-06 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-991.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-30 00:19:12
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