Ubuntu 17.04 USN-3305-1 Critical: NVIDIA Drivers Denial of Service

ubuntu

May 31, 2017

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as anadministrator.

Summary

NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an

administrator.

Software Description:

- nvidia-graphics-drivers-375: NVIDIA binary X.Org driver

Details:

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained flaws in the

kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of

service or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical privilege escalation Ubuntu update instructions NVIDIA drivers

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04:
  nvidia-367                      375.66-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
  nvidia-375                      375.66-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
  nvidia-367                      375.66-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
  nvidia-375                      375.66-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  nvidia-367                      375.66-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  nvidia-375                      375.66-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  nvidia-367                      375.66-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  nvidia-375                      375.66-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.