Improper Data Handling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NVIDIAGRAPHICSDRIVERSLEGACY304XX-385318
  • published10 Dec 2014
  • disclosed10 Dec 2014

Introduced: 10 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8298  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx package and not the nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx package as distributed by Debian.

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.