Vulnerability CVE-2011-0636
Published: 2011-01-22   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The (1) cudaHostAlloc and (2) cuMemHostAlloc functions in the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 3.2 developer drivers for Linux 260.19.26, and possibly other versions, do not initialize pinned memory, which allows local users to read potentially sensitive memory, such as file fragments during read or write operations.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
CUDA drivers/Linux security hole
gran classic che...
25.01.2011

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Nvidia -> Cuda toolkit 

 References:
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515591/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516121/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45717
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024962
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64710
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