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

EPSS: 0.003 (22.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Nvidia Display_driver
Nvidia Graphics Drivers — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security@ubuntu.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

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.