CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-6278 — Nvidia Jetson Tx1 Firmware security 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.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-03-26
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Affected products
- nvidia / jetson_tx1_firmware
- nvidia / jetson_tk1_firmware
- nvidia / tegra_k1_firmware
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Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
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