USN-4404-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities
USN-4404-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities nvidia-graphics-drivers-390, nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in NVIDIA graphics drivers. Software Description nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 – NVIDIA binary X.Org driver nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 – NVIDIA binary X.Org driver Details Thomas E. Carroll discovered that the NVIDIA Cuda grpahics driver did not properly perform access control when performing IPC. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-5963) It was discovered that the UVM driver in the NVIDIA graphics driver contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-5967) It was discovered that the NVIDIA virtual GPU guest drivers contained an unspecified vulnerability that could potentially lead to privileged operation execution. An [ more… ]