Memory corruption in SHIELD TV - CVE-2017-6290
Published: July 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13831
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6290
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
SHIELD TV
SHIELD TV
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to a flaw in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver in NVIDIA Tegra kernel. A local attacker can read from or write to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer and gain elevated privileges or cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists due to a flaw in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver in NVIDIA Tegra kernel. A local attacker can read from or write to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer and gain elevated privileges or cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6290
Update to version 7.0.