CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2015-7869

MEDIUM
6.6
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the kernel mode driver for the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.92, R352 before 354.35, and R358 before 358.87 on Windows and R304 before 304.131, R340 before 340.96, R352 before 352.63, and R358 before 358.16 on Linux allow local users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly gain privileges via unknown vectors, which trigger uninitialized or out of bounds memory access. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT2 and ADT3 due to different vulnerability type and affected versions. See CVE-2015-8328 for the vulnerability in the NVAPI support layer in NVIDIA drivers for Windows.

How to fix

Remediation Available
nvidia-graphics-driversDebian
Fixed in:352.63-1CVE-2015-7869
Fixed in:352.63-1CVE-2015-7869
Fixed in:352.63-1CVE-2015-7869
Fixed in:352.63-1CVE-2015-7869
nvidia-304Ubuntu
Fixed in:304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-304-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-331Ubuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-331-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-340Ubuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-340-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-346Ubuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-346-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-352Ubuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-352-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304Ubuntu
Fixed in:304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:304.131-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-340Ubuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:340.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-352Ubuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1
nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updatesUbuntu
Fixed in:352.63-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2814-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.40%probability of exploitation in 30 days
32ndpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 32% of all known CVEs.

References

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