CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8811

Published: Nov 08, 2016 | Modified: Mar 07, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 0x7000170 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gpu_driver Nvidia 340 (including) 342.00 (excluding)
Gpu_driver Nvidia 375 (including) 375.63 (excluding)

References