Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-NVIDIAGRAPHICSDRIVERSUPDATES-621961
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed12 Apr 2016
Introduced: 12 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-2557 (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-updates package and not the nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, which trigger uninitialized or out-of-bounds memory access.