Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-0355

 

Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-0355

Published: May 26, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6777
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0355
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Quandro
NVS
Tesla

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to improper validation of user supplied data. A local attacker can provide a specially crafted input, gain access to paged memory while holding a spin lock and cause the target application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-0355

Install update from vendor's website.

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