CVE-2016-2557

published 2016-04-12

CVE-2016-2557: The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows allows local users…

Priority P3 35 high 8.4 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, which trigger uninitialized or out-of-bounds memory access.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_driver_r340	—	—
nvidia	gpu_driver_r352	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.4 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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