PT-2018-8327
CVE-2017-6278
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Published
2018-03-26
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Updated
2019-10-03
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
NVIDIA Tegra kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver of the NVIDIA Tegra kernel, where an index or pointer may reference a memory location after the end of the buffer. This could potentially lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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