Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver

CVE-2016-8817 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape 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.

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