NVIDIA Releases Fix For Dangerous Display Driver Exploit

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 5, 2013 @05:46PM from the nothing-like-fixing-bugs-over-the-holidays dept.

wiredmikey writes "NVIDIA on Saturday quietly released a driver update (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 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 addresses other bugs and brings performance increases for several games and applications for a number of GPUs including the GeForce 400/500/600 Series."

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Re:No 7-series support? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-05 18:22 · Score: 3, Informative

Really? Try this page.
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/49740
Still plenty of support for the 7 series.
Re:Dangerous ? Nope. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-05 19:22 · Score: 4, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire