CVE-2017-6278 — NVIDIA Tegra kernel contains a vulnerability in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver whe

NVIDIA Tegra kernel contains a vulnerability in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver where there is the potential to read or write a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalatio

01What is this vulnerability?

NVIDIA Tegra kernel contains a vulnerability in the CORE DVFS Thermal driver where there is the potential to read or write a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Nvidia Corporation	NVIDIA Tegra	N/A

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-03-26T16:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T00:10:50.586Z

09References

• nvidia.custhelp.com — http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4635
• nvidia.custhelp.com — https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4787