Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2016-8812
Published: November 1, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU1128
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-2016-8812
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause D0S condition or obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer (nvstreamkms.sys). By specially crafted executable paths a local attacker can trigger a stack buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service or privilege escalation.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer (nvstreamkms.sys). By specially crafted executable paths a local attacker can trigger a stack buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service or privilege escalation.
Affected software
NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience)
Quadro
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Quadro
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
How to mitigate CVE-2016-8812
Update to version 2.11.4.125, 3.1.0.52.