CVE-2011-0636

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit: 3.2

References

http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7675-1380-00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7676-1022+00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7677-1391+00.htm
http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35e9ea936bHW-7681-487+00.htm
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=190303
http://osvdb.org/70420
http://secunia.com/advisories/42859
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515591/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516121/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45717
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024962
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64710

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