USN-3305-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3305-1

31st May, 2017

nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an
administrator.

Software description

• nvidia-graphics-drivers-375
  - NVIDIA binary X.Org driver
  
  

Details

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained flaws in the
kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of
service or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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