CVE-2012-4225: NVIDIA Unix Graphic Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA UNIX graphics driver before 295.71 and before 304.32 allows local users to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain privileges by modifying the VGA window using /dev/nvidia0.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Unix Graphic Driver: up to and including 295.71; up to and including 304.32

Published 2012-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.