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wraggster
January 6th, 2013, 21:05
NVIDIA on Saturday quietly released a driver update (http://www.securityweek.com/nvidia-releases-fix-dangerous-display-driver-exploit) (version 310.90) that fixes a recently-uncovered security vulnerability in the NVIDIA Display Driver service (nvvsvc.exe). The vulnerability was disclosed on Christmas day (http://www.securityweek.com/researcher-unwraps-dangerous-nvidia-driver-exploit-christmas-day) by Peter Winter-Smith, a researcher from the U.K. According to Rapid7's HD Moore, the vulnerability allows a remote attacker with a valid domain account to gain super-user access to any desktop or laptop running the vulnerable service, and allows an attacker (or rogue user) with a low-privileged account to gain super-access to their own system. In addition to the security fix, driver version 310.90 (http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/55121) addresses other bugs and brings performance increases for several games and applications for a number of GPUs including the GeForce 400/500/600 Series.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/0318242/nvidia-releases-fix-for-dangerous-display-driver-exploit