CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-4959

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 08, 2016 | Modified: May 30, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, there is a Remote Desktop denial of service. A successful exploit of a vulnerable system will result in a kernel null pointer dereference, causing a blue screen crash.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gpu_driver Nvidia 340 (including) 341.96 (excluding)
Gpu_driver Nvidia 352.0 (including) 354.99 (excluding)
Gpu_driver Nvidia 361 (including) 362.77 (excluding)
Gpu_driver Nvidia 367 (including) 368.39 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References