NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation (GLSA 202412-20) — Gentoo security
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NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation — GLSA 202412-20

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers on all architectures
Affected versions < 535.216.01
< 550.127.05
Unaffected versions >= 535.216.01
>= 550.127.05

Background

NVIDIA Drivers are NVIDIA's accelerated graphics driver.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NVIDIA Drivers 535 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-535.216.01:0/535"

All NVIDIA Drivers 550 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-550.127.05:0/550"

References

Release date
December 14, 2024

Latest revision
December 14, 2024: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

Bugzilla entries