CVE-2016-2557

8.4HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Nvidia
Status
Gpu Driver R340
Gpu Driver R352
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 April 2016

Summary

The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, which trigger uninitialized or out-of-bounds memory access.

References

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4060
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https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_5551
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.4
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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