7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-6272

Published: 22/09/2017 Updated: 03/10/2017
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: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and used as the index to an array which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

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NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator ...
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) ...
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and used as the index to an array, which may lead to a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges ...