CVE-2016-4961 — Improper Input Validation in Nvidia Geforce Experience

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 84.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Nvidia Geforce Experience
Timeline
PublishedNov 8
Latest updateMay 17

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: nvidia.custhelp.com ↗Patch: nvidia.custhelp.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-65xq-x9jj-jf35: For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-4961: For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS↗2016-11-08
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