Denial of service in nVidia products - CVE-2017-6260
Published: August 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7617
CSH Severity: Low
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-2017-6260
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to incorrect calculation of string length. A local attacker can cause the system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service.
The weakness exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to incorrect calculation of string length. A local attacker can cause the system to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service.
Affected software
NVS
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver
Tesla
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6260
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.