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USN-3173-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

18 January 2017

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash under certain conditions.

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It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained a flaw in the
kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of
service.

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References

Related notices

  • USN-3173-2: nvidia-opencl-icd-375, nvidia-libopencl1-367, nvidia-375, nvidia-opencl-icd-367, nvidia-367-dev, libcuda1-375, nvidia-375-dev, nvidia-367, nvidia-graphics-drivers-375, nvidia-libopencl1-375, libcuda1-367