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1 vulnerability found for Some NVIDIA Tegra Mobile Processors by Nvidia Corporation

CVE-2018-6242 (GCVE-0-2018-6242)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-05-01 20:00
Modified
2024-09-16 16:53
Severity ?
CWE
  • Code execution, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure
Summary
Some NVIDIA Tegra mobile processors released prior to 2016 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability in BootROM Recovery Mode (RCM). An attacker with physical access to the device's USB and the ability to force the device to reboot into RCM could exploit the vulnerability to execute unverified code.
References
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