CVE-2021-1096

published 2021-07-22

CVE-2021-1096: NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where…

Priority P4 18 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

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

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where dereferencing a NULL pointer may lead to a system crash.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 427.33 < 427.48	427.48
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 452.96 < 453.10	453.10
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 462.31 < 462.96	462.96
nvidia	nvidia_gpu_display_driver	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.9 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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