Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver contains missing permissions check and improper validation vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-7382, CVE-2016-7389)

Linux GPU Display Driver vulnerabilities in the kernel layer may lead to an escalation of privileges

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Vulnerability Details

CVE-2016-7382

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3
CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)

CVE-2016-7389

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for mmap() where improper input validation may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3
CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)

NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a local security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration. NVIDIA doesn’t know of any exploits to these issues at this time.

Affected Products

Fixes

You can download the fixes from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Mitigations

None

Acknowledgements

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