NVIDIA Installer 2.1002.85.551 NVI2.dll AddPackages memory corruption

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in NVIDIA Installer 2.1002.85.551. This impacts the function AddPackages in the library NVI2.dll. This manipulation causes memory corruption. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical was found in NVIDIA Installer 2.1002.85.551. Affected by this vulnerability is the function AddPackages in the library NVI2.dll. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 12/02/2012. The weakness was presented 12/06/2012 by Gjoko Krstic (LiquidWorm) with Zero Science Lab as File 118648 as confirmed posting (PacketStorm). The advisory is shared at packetstormsecurity.org. The public release happened without involvement of NVIDIA. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/02/2018).

A public exploit has been developed by LiquidWorm in Javascript and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at cxsecurity.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (80540), Exploit-DB (23177), SecurityFocus (BID 56826†) and OSVDB (88181†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• NVIDIA

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• Installer

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• 2.1002.85.551

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.nvidia.com/

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