Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled large ARGB cursors. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges.
The NVIDIA graphics drivers have been updated to 304.88 to fix this issue.
In addition to the security fix, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.
Affected
nvidia-graphics-drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-0131 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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