USN-2747-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2747-1

28th September, 2015

nvidia-graphics-drivers-304, nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-340, nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-346, nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates, jockey vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software description

• jockey - user interface and desktop integration for driver management
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver

Details

Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly
handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to
possibly gain root privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 15.04:

nvidia-346 346.96-0ubuntu0.1

nvidia-346-updates 346.96-0ubuntu0.1

nvidia-340-updates 340.93-0ubuntu0.1

nvidia-340 340.93-0ubuntu0.1

nvidia-304-updates 304.128-0ubuntu0.1

nvidia-304 304.128-0ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

nvidia-346 346.96-0ubuntu0.0.1

nvidia-346-updates 346.96-0ubuntu0.0.1

nvidia-340-updates 340.93-0ubuntu0.0.1

nvidia-340 340.93-0ubuntu0.0.1

nvidia-304-updates 304.128-0ubuntu0.0.1

nvidia-304 304.128-0ubuntu0.0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

jockey-common 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.16

nvidia-304 304.128-0ubuntu0.0.0.1

nvidia-304-updates 304.128-0ubuntu0.0.0.1

nvidia-340-updates 340.93-0ubuntu0.0.0.1

nvidia-340 340.93-0ubuntu0.0.0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-5950

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/1L0jwVz