CVE-2016-8811

published 2016-11-08

CVE-2016-8811: 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…

Priority P3 43 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

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

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 0x7000170 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, 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

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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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