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CVE-2016-73861 exploit

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vu…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.4%
percentile 73%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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 0x70000D4 which may lead to leaking of kernel memory contents to user space through an uninitialized buffer.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.41% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-40656 NVIDIA Driver - Escape Code Leaks Uninitialised ExAllocatePoolWithTag Memory to Userspace · dos · 2016-10-31

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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