NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause a pointer dereference of an untrusted value, which may lead to denial of service.
The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual_gpu | Nvidia | * | 13.9 (excluding) |
| Virtual_gpu | Nvidia | 14.0 (including) | 15.4 (excluding) |
| Virtual_gpu | Nvidia | 16.0 (including) | 16.2 (excluding) |
An attacker can supply a pointer for memory locations that the product is not expecting. If the pointer is dereferenced for a write operation, the attack might allow modification of critical state variables, cause a crash, or execute code. If the dereferencing operation is for a read, then the attack might allow reading of sensitive data, cause a crash, or set a variable to an unexpected value (since the value will be read from an unexpected memory location). There are several variants of this weakness, including but not necessarily limited to: