Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-NVIDIAGRAPHICSDRIVERS304UPDATES-618909
  • published15 Feb 2017
  • disclosed15 Feb 2017

Introduced: 15 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-0310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

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

All versions of NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where improper access controls allowing unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.