CVE-2012-0953 describes a race condition in Nvidia graphics drivers for Linux, allowing a highly privileged local attacker to exfiltrate limited kernel memory to userspace. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), exploitation requires high attack complexity and high privileges, resulting in low impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. The vulnerability was patched in driver version 295.53.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 295.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:display_driver:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.