Vulnerability Details
The following section summarizes the potential vulnerability. The description uses CWE™ and the risk assessment follows CVSS.
CVE-2017-6276
NVIDIA Tegra OpenMax Component contains a vulnerability in LIBNVMMLITE_VIDEO.SO, where the media server may be referencing memory after it has been freed, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.0 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration. NVIDIA doesn’t know of any exploits to these issues at this time.
Affected Software Version
The following software version and driver branch is impacted by the issue described in this bulletin.
| CVE | Product | OS | Version |
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| CVE-2017-6276 | SHIELD Tablet Software | Android | SHIELD Experience 5.3 and prior |
Notes:
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Software Security Updates
The following supported software version contains the security update for the issue described in this bulletin. If you are using an unsupported software version or an earlier driver branch that is no longer supported, upgrade to the updated supported version listed.
| Product | OS | Updated Version |
|---|---|---|
| SHIELD Tablet | Android | SHIELD Experience 5.4 |
Notes:
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Updates for SHIELD are available from Settings>About >System update.
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SHIELD Tablet 5.4 also contains updates for CPU speculative side-channel vulnerabilities. For more information, see Security Bulletin ID: 4614.
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Revision History
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | March 22, 2018 | Initial release |
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