CVE-2016-8805

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 0x7000014 where a value passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an internal array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected products

Nvidia Windows Gpu Display Driver

Nvidia Gpu Driver

< 342.00, 375.63

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.0

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

1.5% (72th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-264

NVD status

Modified

Published

2016-11-08