7.2
CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2015-1170

First published: Fri Mar 06 2015(Updated: )

The NVIDIA Display Driver R304 before 309.08, R340 before 341.44, R343 before 345.20, and R346 before 347.52 does not properly validate local client impersonation levels when performing a "kernel administrator check," which allows local users to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Nvidia Gpu Driver R304<=309.07
Nvidia Gpu Driver R340<=341.43
Nvidia Gpu Driver R343<=345.19
Nvidia Gpu Driver R346<=347.51

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