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GLSA-202412-20 : NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 213022

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202412-20 (NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202412-20

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942031

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213022

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202412-20.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/14/2024

Updated: 12/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-0126

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nvidia-drivers

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0126