MGASA-2015-0005

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    MGASA-2015-0005

    Published: 7 Jan 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated nvidia packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated nvidia304 and nvidia-current drivers fixes security issues: The NVIDIA Linux Discrete GPU drivers before R304.125, R331.x before R331.113, R340.x before R340.65, R343.x before R343.36, and R346.x before R346.22, Linux for Tegra (L4T) driver before R21.2, and Chrome OS driver before R40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and X server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GLX indirect rendering protocol request (CVE-2014-8093, CVE-2014-8098, CVE-2014-8298). Note, the nvidia173 173.14.39 driver in Mageia 4 is also vulnerable to this issue, but as it has reached EOL upstream it wont get any fixes for this. For nvidia-cuda-toolkit, it's safe to use with the fixed nvidia304 and nvidia-current drivers released as part of this update.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0005.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14787, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14767, http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/625511/, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2438-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kmod-nvidia-current

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/kmod-nvidia-current?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -331.113-1.mga4.nonfree

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High