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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2012-0952

Medium
5/10

Summary

A heap buffer overflow was discovered in the device control ioctl in the Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, which may allow an attacker to overflow 49 bytes. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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  • Published