For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys for Windows or nvidia.ko for Linux) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-8238 For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys for Windows or nvidia.ko for Linux) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3122-1 NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:57:47.082Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-7382

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-11-08T20:59:07.943

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-7382

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