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CVE-2012-4225

Date: November 19, 2012

NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4225
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4225

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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