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 Severity: High
    Title: NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation
     Date: December 14, 2024
     Bugs: #942031
       ID: 202412-20

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers, the
worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Background
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NVIDIA Drivers are NVIDIA's accelerated graphics driver.

Affected packages
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Package                     Vulnerable    Unaffected
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x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers  < 535.216.01  >= 535.216.01

Description
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A vulnerability has been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers. Please review the
CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
======

Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All NVIDIA Drivers 535 users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-535.216.01:0/535"

All NVIDIA Drivers 550 users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-550.127.05:0/550"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2024-0126
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0126

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202412-20

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2024 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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