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An [ethical?] hacker going by the Twitter handle @peterwintrsmith discovered a gaping security hole in NVIDIA's display driver service that allows ordinary local and remote users to gain administrator privileges in Windows. Mr. Winter-Smith posted a description and details of the exploit, in which he describes the NVIDIA Display Device server (NVVSVC) as listening on a pipe (a means by which different processes talk to each other) "\pipe\nsvr," which has an null/empty discretionary access control list (DACL, a security whitelist for users/groups), letting ordinary logged in local and remote users (firewall permitting, and the remote admin has a local account) to gain administrator rights to the system. In our opinion, the exploit is plausible, and could cut short winter breaks of a few in Santa Clara.
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