CVE-2012-4225 Information

Description

NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.

Reference

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/76 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201304-01.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/08/4