CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8809

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-11-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-11-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-264

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape ID 0x70001b2 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected configurations

• nvidia gpu driver (>= 340 < 342.00) • nvidia gpu driver (>= 375 < 375.63)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References