vulnerability

Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2017-6272)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 22, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and used as the index to an array, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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