vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-6272: nvidia-graphics-drivers -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 22, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-nvidia-graphics-drivers
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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