CVE-2012-0951

Publication date 12 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Description

A Memory Corruption Vulnerability exists in NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 29549 due to an unknown function in the file proc/driver/nvidia/registry.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nvidia-graphics-drivers	13.04 raring	Not in release
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 304.88-0ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.2
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0951

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