svn commit: r304136 - head/security/vuxml
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 12 07:31:23 UTC 2012
Author: danfe
Date: Wed Sep 12 07:31:22 2012
New Revision: 304136
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/304136
Log:
Update NVIDIA arbitrary memory access vulnerability with CVE-2012-4225.
Modified:
head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Wed Sep 12 07:19:30 2012 (r304135)
+++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Wed Sep 12 07:31:22 2012 (r304136)
@@ -4046,8 +4046,10 @@ Note: Please add new entries to the beg
<affects>
<package>
<name>nvidia-driver</name>
- <range><gt>173.14.31_1</gt><lt>295.40</lt></range>
- <range><ge>100.14.03</ge><lt>173.14.31_1</lt></range>
+ <range><gt>173.14.35</gt><lt>295.71</lt></range>
+ <range><gt>96.43.20_2</gt><lt>173.14.35</lt></range>
+ <range><gt>71.86.15_2</gt><lt>96.43.20_2</lt></range>
+ <range><lt>71.86.15_2</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
@@ -4066,14 +4068,26 @@ Note: Please add new entries to the beg
all users with Geforce 8 or newer, G80 Quadro or newer, and all
Tesla GPUs to update their drivers to 295.40 or later.</p>
</blockquote>
+ <p>Later, it was additionally discovered that similar exploit could
+ be achieved through remapping of VGA window:</p>
+ <blockquote cite="http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140">
+ <p>NVIDIA received notification of a security exploit that uses
+ NVIDIA UNIX device files to map and program registers to redirect
+ the VGA window. Through the VGA window, the exploit can access
+ any region of physical system memory. This arbitrary memory
+ access can be further exploited, for example, to escalate user
+ privileges.</p>
+ </blockquote>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2012-0946</cvename>
+ <cvename>CVE-2012-4225</cvename>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2012-03-20</discovery>
<entry>2012-05-10</entry>
+ <modified>2012-09-12</modified>
</dates>
</vuln>
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