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USN-2747-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

28 September 2015

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator.

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Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly
handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to
possibly gain root privileges.

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