NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow a privileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow a privileged     attacker to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution,     denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. (CVE-2024-0126)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202412-20 (NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A display driver installed on the remote Windows host is affected by the following:

  - NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow a privileged attacker     to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of     service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering. (CVE-2024-0126)

  - NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the user mode layer, where an unprivileged     regular user can cause an out-of-bounds read. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code     execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.     (CVE-2024-0117, CVE-2024-0118, CVE-2024-0119, CVE-2024-0120, CVE-2024-0121)

Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the driver's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
249638	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-0126	Nessus	Misc.	high
213022	GLSA-202412-20 : NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege Escalation	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
209657	NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (October 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high

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CVE-2024-0126

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