CVE-2017-6282
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedNVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVMAP where an attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location which may lead to an escalation of privileges. This issue is rated as high.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceMemory corruption vulnerability in NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver's NVMAP (Nvidia Virtual Memory) component allowing an attacker to write arbitrary values to arbitrary memory locations, leading to local privilege escalation from user to kernel mode.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 6.2all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify NVIDIA Tegra hardware presenceCheck /proc/cpuinfo for 'NVIDIA Tegra' or examine device tree/dmesg for Tegra-specific hardware identifiersAffected if System does not contain NVIDIA Tegra processors, the vulnerability does not apply
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Verify NVMAP kernel driver is loadedCheck for Nvmap kernel module presence via 'lsmod' or inspect /proc/modules, or examine kernel config for CONFIG_NVMAPAffected if NVMAP driver is not present in the kernel, the memory corruption flaw cannot be exploited
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Confirm user-space access to NVMAP interfaceInspect /dev/nvmap or similar NVMAP device nodes and check their permissions (ls -la /dev/nvmap*)Affected if The NVMAP device interface is accessible to untrusted user processes, enabling the attack vector
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For Shield TV, determine firmware versionCheck system settings > About > Device version or use 'getprop ro.build.version.sdk' and compare against 6.2Affected if Shield TV firmware is version 6.2 or lower, making it directly vulnerable
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For Android devices with Tegra, assess exposureSince all Android versions with Tegra are affected per the advisory, identify if the device uses Tegra SoC and if NVMAP is exposed to appsAffected if Device runs Android on NVIDIA Tegra hardware with accessible NVMAP interface
User is affected if the system uses NVIDIA Tegra hardware with the NVMAP driver loaded and accessible to untrusted code, particularly Shield TV firmware 6.2 or lower, or any Android version on Tegra with NVMAP exposure.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply NVIDIA's security patch for the Tegra kernel driver; verify the NVMAP driver is not exposed to untrusted code or devices.
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- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing4.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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