6.1
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-6259

Published: 28/07/2017 Updated: 08/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.1 | Impact Score: 4 | Exploitability Score: 1.6
VMScore: 632
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where an incorrect detection and recovery from an invalid state produced by specific user actions may lead to denial of service.

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NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator ...
Debian Bug report logs - #869783 nvidia-driver: CVE-2017-6257, CVE-2017-6259 Package: nvidia-driver; Maintainer for nvidia-driver is Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for nvidia-driver is src:nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Julien Aubin <julienaubin@gm ...
Debian Bug report logs - #876414 nvidia-kernel-dkms: security issues CVE-2017-6266, CVE-2017-6267, CVE-2017-6272 Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms; Maintainer for nvidia-kernel-dkms is Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for nvidia-kernel-dkms is src:nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS, buildd, popcon) ...
Debian Bug report logs - #886852 nvidia-graphics-drivers: CVE-2017-5753/CVE-2017-5715 (spectre), CVE-2017-5754 (meltdown) Package: nvidia-driver; Maintainer for nvidia-driver is Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for nvidia-driver is src:nvidia-graphics-drivers (PTS, buildd, popcon) ...