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Medium · 5.0 CVE-2012-0952 EUVD-2012-0975GHSA-xg6p-7989-gjfr

Heap overflow in control device ioctl

Published May 8, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by canonical

Description

A heap buffer overflow was discovered in the device control ioctl in the Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, which may allow an attacker to overflow 49 bytes. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nvidia graphics drivers unspecified – < 295.53 295.53

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 nvidia-graphics-drivers 295.53-1 —
Debian 13 nvidia-graphics-drivers 295.53-1 —
Debian 12 nvidia-graphics-drivers 295.53-1 —

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