CVE-2014-8298 in NVIDIA Driver
Summary
The NVIDIA Linux Discrete GPU drivers before R304.125, R331.x before R331.113, R340.x before R340.65, R343.x before R343.36, and R346.x before R346.22, Linux for Tegra (L4T) driver before R21.2, and Chrome OS driver before R40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and X server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GLX indirect rendering protocol request.
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Reservation
10/16/2014
Disclosure
12/10/2014
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68412 | NVIDIA Driver GLX Rendering data processing | 19 | Unproven | Official fix | CVE-2014-8298 |