Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-NVIDIAGRAPHICSDRIVERS96UPDATES-627875
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed6 Mar 2015
Introduced: 6 Mar 2015
CVE-2015-1170 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates package and not the nvidia-graphics-drivers-96-updates package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-1170
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3634
- https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142781493222653&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143013598825091&w=2
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032013