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CVE-2016-8806
published 2016-11-08

CVE-2016-8806: 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…

high7.8CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EXPLOIT
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 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from an user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianpostgresql-common>= 0 < 154ubuntu1.1154ubuntu1.1
debianpostgresql-common>= 0 < 173ubuntu0.1173ubuntu0.1
nvidiagpu_driver>= 340 < 342.00342.00
nvidiagpu_driver>= 375 < 375.63375.63
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.82.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.8
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.12.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
osv7.8HIGH