Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines

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."

Comments

Easy solution

[Synerg1y]

Use Omega drivers, I stopped using Nvidia drivers about the time they started putting an Nvidia windows user on my systems for "gathering performance data".

Re:Easy solution

[Anonymous Coward]

If they have "local access" hey can pretty much do what anyway

You call that "editing?"

[CanHasDIY]

Here, Timmy, let me do your job for you:

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.

Granted, I've seen worse, but c'mon, man, you're getting paid for this shit.

Pay attention.