NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation

NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation A NVIDIA drivers bug allows unprivileged user-mode software to access the GPU inappropriately, allowing for privilege escalation. nvidia-drivers 2014-02-02 2014-03-13 493448 local 331.20 319.76 304.116 304.119 304.121 331.20

The NVIDIA drivers provide X11 and GLX support for NVIDIA graphic boards.

The vulnerability is caused due to the driver allowing unprivileged user-mode software to access the GPU.

A local attacker could gain escalated privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 331 branch should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 319 branch should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.76"

All NVIDIA Drivers users using the 304 branch should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116"

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