CVE-2016-8806

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 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from an user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2016-11-08

Updated

2024-08-06

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40663

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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• CVE-2016-8805
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