CVE-2012-0952: NVIDIA Display Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap buffer overflow was discovered in the device control ioctl in the Linux driver for Nvidia graphics cards, which may allow an attacker to overflow 49 bytes. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Display Driver: before 295.53 (fixed in 295.53)

Published 2020-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.