CVE-2011-0636: NVIDIA Cuda Toolkit

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) cudaHostAlloc and (2) cuMemHostAlloc functions in the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 3.2 developer drivers for Linux 260.19.26, and possibly other versions, do not initialize pinned memory, which allows local users to read potentially sensitive memory, such as file fragments during read or write operations.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Cuda Toolkit: version 3.2 only

Published 2011-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.