CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-5666
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-27
- 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-129
Description
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) create context command DDI DxgkDdiCreateContext in which the product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.
Affected configurations
• nvidia gpu driver
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-26250 support.lenovo.com
- https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4772 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4797 nvidia.custhelp.com
- http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-26250 support.lenovo.com
- https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4772 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4797 nvidia.custhelp.com