Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted NVMAP_IOC_CREATE IOCTL call,…

published 2015-02-06 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-5221

cvss: 6.9; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits: 0; none known

Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted NVMAP_IOC_CREATE IOCTL call, which triggers a use-after-free error, as demonstrated by using a race condition to escape the Chrome sandbox.

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/01/exploiting-nvmap-to-escape-chrome.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	6.9	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com /2015/01/exploiting-nvmap-to-escape-chrome.html
exploit
nvidia.custhelp.com /app/answers/detail/a_id/3618
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2014-5332
NVD CVE-2014-5332

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Summary