CVE-2016-8811

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 products

Nvidia Windows Gpu Display Driver

Nvidia Gpu Driver

< 342.00, 375.63

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.0

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

1.6% (74th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-264

NVD status

Modified

Published

2016-11-08