CVE-2015-5950

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2015-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The NVIDIA display driver R352 before 353.82 and R340 before 341.81 on Windows; R304 before 304.128, R340 before 340.93, and R352 before 352.41 on Linux; and R352 before 352.46 on GRID vGPU and vSGA allows local users to write to an arbitrary kernel memory location and consequently gain privileges via a crafted ioctl call.

Affected products

NVIDIA Display Driver: through 352.09; through 352.86; 304.108, 304.119, 304.121, 304.123, 304.125, 352.21 (+5)
Nvidia Corporation GPU Display Driver: through 352.30

References

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3763/~/cve-2015-5950-memory-corruption-due-to-an-unsanitized-pointer-in-the-nvidia
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033662
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2747-1
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468
https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_3313
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3763/~/cve-2015-5950-memory-corruption-due-to-an-unsanitized-pointer-in-the-nvidia
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033662
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2747-1
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468
https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04815468
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_3313

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