Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-6259
Published: August 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7614
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6259
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
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.
Affected software
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6259
Update GeForce to version 384.94.
Update Quadro, NVS and Tesla to version 377.55, 385.08.
Update Quadro, NVS and Tesla to version 377.55, 385.08.