Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-67
Advisory Release Date: 2012-04-30 14:47 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:06 Pacific
The NVIDIA UNIX driver before 295.40 allows local users to access arbitrary memory locations by leveraging GPU device-node read/write privileges.
Affected Packages:
nvidia
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nvidia to update your system.
src:
nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nvidia-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-295.40.3.2.12-1.1.amzn1.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-3.2.12-3.2.4.amzn1-295.40-1.1.amzn1.x86_64