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Oops! It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting NVIDIA's GPU Linux drivers

This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileged process. Their security implications were confirmed via a proof of concept that achieves kernel read and write primitives. The NVIDIA Open source driver Back in 2022, NVIDIA started distributing the Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules. Since 2024, using these modules is officially "the right move" for ...

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