The U.S. company has released an update for NVIDIA driver (310.90 WHQL), which fixes a security vulnerability, discovered at the end of December. Pre-existing flaw could allow attackers to gain administrator privileges on the versions of Windows, which were released after Vista.
Vulnerability in the driver NVIDIA Display Service has been discovered by researchers in the field of information security, Peter Winter-Smith. He posted to exploit vulnerabilities on Pastebin.
The flaw could cause a buffer overflow and the introduction of a certain code afforded privileges. The exploit provides an attacker to bypass DEP-and ASLR-protection on the target system.
Later exploit the vulnerability has been removed from Pastebin, which is related to the fact that researchers have published it without notifying representatives of NVIDIA's newly discovered vulnerability.
