CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6248

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-04-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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-125

Description

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape where the software uses a sequential operation to read or write a buffer, but it uses an incorrect length value that causes it to access memory that is outside of the bounds of the buffer which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

Affected configurations

• nvidia gpu driver

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References