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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:25:11 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...us.mitre.org,
security@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: NVidia Linux driver
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 15:13 +0200, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:58:16AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could a CVE please be assigned to the following issue:
> >
> > The binary NVidia Linux driver allows local users to access arbitrary
> > memory locations by leveraging GPU device-node read/write privileges,
> > and escalate privileges to root. Possibly an incomplete fix for
> > CVE-2012-0946.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4
>
> did you test that the exploit works on NVIDIA driver that should contain
> the CVE-2012-0946 fix?
Yes, I have successfully tested it on 295.40.
Marc.
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