The NVIDIA Display Driver R304 before 309.08, R340 before 341.44, R343 before 345.20, and R346 before 347.52 does not properly validate local client impersonation levels when performing a "kernel administrator check," which allows local users to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-03-06T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:33:20.745Z

Reserved: 2015-01-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-1170

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-03-06T23:59:02.263

Modified: 2016-12-08T03:07:22.887

Link: CVE-2015-1170

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