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CVE-2016-8805

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CVE-2016-8805

Published: Nov 8, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

affected
Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

References

94001
vdb-entry
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40667
exploit
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