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CVE-2016-8805
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-11-08T20:59:18.663 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:01.817

Summary

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.

Affected products

nvidia — gpu_driver

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References

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