National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0636

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: cuda-toolkit-cudahostalloc-info-disc(64710)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64710

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024962

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024962

External Source: BID

Name: 45717

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45717

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110201 fix for Nvidia CUDA drivers security breach

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/516121/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110107 CUDA drivers/Linux security hole

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/515591/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42859

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42859

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70420

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70420

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303

Hyperlink:http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303

External Source: MISC

Name: http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm

Hyperlink:http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm

External Source: MISC

Name: http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm

Hyperlink:http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm

External Source: MISC

Name: http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm

Hyperlink:http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm

External Source: MISC

Name: http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm

Hyperlink:http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm