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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:13:46 +0200
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...us.mitre.org, security@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: NVidia Linux driver
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?
Thanks,
--
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team
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