What is CVE-2012-0953?

CVE-2012-0953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Display Driver, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2012-0953?

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

Vulnerability in Nvidia Display Driver

CVE-2012-0953

A race condition was discovered in the Linux drivers for Nvidia graphics which allowed an attacker to exfiltrate kernel memory to userspace. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.002 (16.0th 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)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0953?: CVE-2012-0953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Display Driver, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2012-0953?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.