#VU10669 Privilege escalation in SHIELD TV - CVE-2017-6279
Published: February 21, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10669
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6279
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
SHIELD TV
SHIELD TV
Software vendor:
nVidia
nVidia
Description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to a flaw in OMX.Nvidia.aac.decoder in NVIDIA Tegra OpenMax Component. A local attacker can disable the dead code to avoid malicious software, instantiate the vulnerable component and cause service to crash or gain elevated privileges.
The weakness exists due to a flaw in OMX.Nvidia.aac.decoder in NVIDIA Tegra OpenMax Component. A local attacker can disable the dead code to avoid malicious software, instantiate the vulnerable component and cause service to crash or gain elevated privileges.
Remediation
Update to version 6.3.