CVE-2012-0953 in Graphics Drivers

Summary

A race condition was discovered in the Linux drivers for Nvidia graphics which allowed an attacker to exfiltrate kernel memory to userspace. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

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• Responsible: Canonical Ltd.
• Reservation: 02/01/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-10061 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-362 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00044
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0953
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0953
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-0953/