Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-0131 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Nvidia GPU Driver
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Buffer overflow in the NVIDIA GPU driver before 304.88, 310.x before 310.44, and 313.x before 313.30 for the X Window System on UNIX, when NoScanout mode is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a large ARGB cursor.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 16 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201304-01.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201304-01 (NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation) Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA drivers: A vulnerability has been found in the way NVIDIA drivers handle read/write access to GPU device nodes, allowing access to arbitrary system memory locations (CVE-2012-4225). A buffer overflow error has been discovered in NVIDIA drivers (CVE-2013-0131). NOTE: Exposure to CVE-2012-4225 is reduced in Gentoo due to 660 permissions being used on the GPU device nodes by default. Impact : A local attacker could gain escalated privileges. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65862 published 2013-04-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65862 title GLSA-201304-01 : NVIDIA Drivers: Privilege escalation NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1799-1.NASL description It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled large ARGB cursors. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges. The NVIDIA graphics drivers have been updated to 304.88 to fix this issue. In addition to the security fix, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65923 published 2013-04-11 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65923 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates, nvidia-settings, nvidia-settings-updates vulnerability (USN-1799-1) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_1431F2D6A06E11E2B9E0001636D274F3.NASL description NVIDIA Unix security team reports : When the NVIDIA driver for the X Window System is operated in last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65935 published 2013-04-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65935 title FreeBSD : NVIDIA UNIX driver -- ARGB cursor buffer overflow in 'NoScanout' mode (1431f2d6-a06e-11e2-b9e0-001636d274f3)