Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2016-7384

 

Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2016-7384

Published: November 1, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1122
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7384
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVS
Quadro
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to cause DoS condition or gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper validation of input/output length in UVMLiteController Device IO Control handling in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler, that allows a local attacker to trigger denial of service or increase privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service or privilege escalation.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7384

Update Quadro and NVS to 342.00, 375.63.
Update GeForce to 375.63.

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