CVE-2016-8807

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Nvidia
Status
Quadro, Nvs, And Geforce (all Versions)
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 November 2016

Summary

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 0x10000e9 where a value is passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the size input to memcpy() causing a stack buffer overflow, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected Version(s)

Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all ) Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

References

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-10822
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40668/
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94002
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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