Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux

CVE-2016-7389 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux R304 before 304.132, R340 before 340.98, R367 before 367.55, R361_93 before 361.93.03, and R370 before 370.28 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for mmap() where improper input validation may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

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