CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2556

Published: Apr 12, 2016 | Modified: Sep 09, 2021

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2556
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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 improperly allows access to restricted functionality, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Windows	Microsoft	*	*

References

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