What is CVE-2012-0952?

CVE-2012-0952 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Display Driver, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2012-0952?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in NVIDIA Display Driver

CVE-2012-0952

A heap buffer overflow was discovered in the device control ioctl in the Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, which may allow an attacker to overflow 49 bytes. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2020-05-08 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

NVIDIA Display Driver
NVIDIA Graphics Drivers — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0952?: CVE-2012-0952 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Display Driver, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2012-0952?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.