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CVE-2016-8806
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-11-08T20:59:19.710 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:01.943

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 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from an user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected products

nvidia — gpu_driver

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References

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