N/A - USN-1523-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-1523-1	First vendor Publication	2012-08-06
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2012-08-06
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 :
Cvss Base Score	Not Defined	Attack Range	Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score	Not Defined	Attack Complexity	Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score	Not Defined	Authentication	Not Defined
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 11.10 - Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description: - nvidia-graphics-drivers: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver - nvidia-graphics-drivers-173: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver - nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver - nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates: NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

Details:

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
nvidia-173 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2
nvidia-173-updates 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2
nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1.1
nvidia-current-updates 295.49-0ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 11.10:
nvidia-173 173.14.30-0ubuntu8.2
nvidia-173-updates 173.14.30-0ubuntu5.2
nvidia-current 280.13-0ubuntu6.2
nvidia-current-updates 295.20-0ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 11.04:
nvidia-173 173.14.30-0ubuntu1.2
nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11.2
nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.3

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1523-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1033452

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/295.40-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates/173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates/295.49-0ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/280.13-0ubuntu6.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/173.14.30-0ubuntu8.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates/173.14.30-0ubuntu5.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates/295.20-0ubuntu0.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/270.41.06-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/173.14.30-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/173.14.22-0ubuntu11.2