vulnerability

Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2021-1052)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 8, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

The NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, all versions of the R460 and R450 driver branches, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for DxgkDdiEscape or IOCTL in which user-mode clients can access legacy privileged APIs, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure. This issue is fixed in versions 460.32.03 and 450.102.04.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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