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MGASA-2012-0132
| Date: | June 27th, 2012 |
| Affected releases: | 1 |
Description:
A security vulnerability has been found in the NVIDIA proprietary
driver which allows any process to reconfigure the GPU and gain
access to arbitrary system memory (CVE-2012-0946).
This vulnerability has been classified as high risk by NVIDIA.
This update for the legacy nvidia-96xx driver addresses the issue.
Updated Packages:
dkms-nvidia96xx-96.43.20-1.2.mga1
nvidia96xx-cuda-96.43.20-1.2.mga1
nvidia96xx-devel-96.43.20-1.2.mga1
nvidia96xx-doc-html-96.43.20-1.2.mga1
x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx-96.43.20-1.2.mga1
References:
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0946
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5355
