CVE-2016-8805: 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…

PriorityP343high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EXPLOIT

EPSS

1.54%

72.0th percentile

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 0x7000014 where a value passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an internal array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 340 < 342.00	342.00
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 375 < 375.63	375.63

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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