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CVE-2016-8807

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 0x10000e9 where a value is passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the size input to memcpy() causing a stack buffer overflow, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Published

2016-11-08T20:59:20.663

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	nvidia	gpu_driver	< 342.00	Yes
Application	nvidia	gpu_driver	< 375.63	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows	*	No

References

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4247 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94002 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-10822 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40668/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4247 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94002 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-10822 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40668/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)