Vulnerability Details
CVE-2016-8813
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where multiple pointers are used without checking for NULL, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8814
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where multiple pointers are used without checking for NULL, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.7 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8815
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a value passed from a user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8816
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a value passed from a user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.7 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8817
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a value passed from a user to the driver is used without validation as the size input to memcpy(), causing a buffer overflow, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.7 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8818
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a pointer passed from a user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8819
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a handle to a kernel object may be returned to the user, leading to possible denial of service or escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8820
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a check on a function return value is missing, potentially allowing an uninitialized value to be used as the source of a strcpy() call, leading to denial of service or information disclosure.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:U
NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a local security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration. NVIDIA doesn't know of any exploits to these issues at this time.
Affected Products
CVE | Product | Impacted Installed Component | OS |
---|---|---|---|
CVE-2016-8813 through CVE-2016-8820 |
Quadro NVS GeForce Tesla GRID | Graphics Driver | Windows |
Fixes
You can download the fixes from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.
Product | Product Series | OS | Branch | First Version Including all the Fixes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Quadro NVS | All | Windows | R375 | 375.63 |
R340 | 342.00 | |||
Tesla | All | Windows | R367 | 369.73 |
GeForce | All | Windows | R375 | 375.63 |
GeForce | GPUs with Tesla architecture | Windows | R340 | 342.00 |
GRID | GRID Series | Windows | R367 | GRID Software 4.1 369.71 |
R361 | GRID Software 3.3 363.42 | |||
R352 | GRID Software 2.5 356.60 |
Mitigations
None
Acknowledgements
None
Revision History
Revision | Date | Description |
---|---|---|
3.0 | March 9, 2017 | Added information about fixes available for affected NVIDIA GRID products |
2.1 | January 11, 2017 | Corrected a typographical error in the name of the DxgkDdiEscape function |
2.0 | January 4, 2017 | Added information about fixes available for affected NVIDIA GRID products |
1.0 | November 18, 2016 | Initial release |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How do I know what driver version I have installed?
- Launch Windows Device Manager.
- Select Display Adapters.
- Select the NVIDIA GPU node and right-click.
- Go to the Driver tab.
The driver version can be deciphered as shown in the following examples: 10.18.13.6472 is 364.72 and 10.18.13.472 is 304.72
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