Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-6259

 

Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-6259

Published: August 1, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7614
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6259
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
NVS
Tesla

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer helper function due to incorrect detection and recovery from an invalid state. A remote attacker can perform specific actions and cause the system to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6259

Update GeForce to version 384.94.
Update Quadro, NVS and Tesla to version 377.55, 385.08.

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