CVE-2011-0636 (GCVE-0-2011-0636)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-01-22 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:58
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm
cve@mitre.org http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm
cve@mitre.org http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm
cve@mitre.org http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm
cve@mitre.org http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303
cve@mitre.org http://osvdb.org/70420
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/42859 Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515591/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516121/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45717
cve@mitre.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024962
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64710
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://osvdb.org/70420
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/42859 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515591/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516121/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45717
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024962
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64710
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