Privilege escalation in nVidia products - CVE-2017-6257
Published: August 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7615
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6257
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer handler due to NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker can cause the system to crash or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer handler due to NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker can cause the system to crash or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Affected software
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
Ubuntu
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6257
Update GeForce, Quadro and NVS to version 375.82, 384.59.
Update Tesla to version 375.74, 384.59.
Update Tesla to version 375.74, 384.59.