CVE-2015-5950 Information

Description

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128 R340 before 340.93 and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privileges via a crafted ioctl call.

Reference

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3763/~/cve-2015-5950-memory-corruption-due-to-an-unsanitized-pointer-in-the-nvidia http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033662 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2747-1 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468 https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468 https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_3313