7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-8811

Published: 08/11/2016 Updated: 07/03/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 prior to 342.00 and R375 prior to 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.

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Exploits

Source: bugschromiumorg/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=936 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x7000170 lacks proper bounds checks for the variable size input escape data, and relies on a user provided size as the upper bound for writing output Crashing context with PoC (Win 10 x64 with 37254): KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (139) A kerne ...