| Name | CVE-2012-4225 |
| Description | NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 684781 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS) | jessie/non-free | 340.106-1 | fixed |
| stretch/non-free (security), stretch/non-free (lts), stretch/non-free | 390.144-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster/non-free | 418.226.00-3 | fixed |
| bullseye/non-free | 470.256.02-2 | fixed |
| bookworm/non-free-firmware | 535.183.01-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie/non-free-firmware, sid/non-free-firmware | 535.216.03-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-173xx <no-dsa> (Non-free not supported)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/4
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140