Privilege escalation in nVidia products - CVE-2016-7382
Published: November 1, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU1121
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7382
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper permissions check in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler, that allows a local attacker to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.
The weakness exists due to improper permissions check in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler, that allows a local attacker to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.
Affected software
Quadro
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
How to mitigate CVE-2016-7382
Update Quadro and NVS to 342.00, 375.63.
Update GeForce to 375.63.
Update GeForce to 375.63.