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Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines

Posted by timothy on from the knowledge-counteracts dept.

L3sPau1 writes "A zero-day exploit has been found in the Nvidia Display Driver Service on Windows machines. An attacker with local access can use the exploit to gain root privileges on a Windows machine. Windows domains with relaxed firewall rules or file sharing enabled can also pull off the exploit, which was posted to Pastebin by researcher Peter Winter-Smith."

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  1. Re:#WindowsRage by gman003 · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS-DOS.

    You kind of need "privileges" in order to have privilege escalation.