CVE-2016-4961 Denial of service in Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions)
Attackers can cause a system crash via improper parameter sanitization in NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers, affecting Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-4961?
CVE-2016-4961 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions), published on 8 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4961?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Geforce Experience.
How do I fix CVE-2016-4961?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4961 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-4961 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4961 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions)
- CVE-2017-6250 Code injection in GeForce Experience
- CVE-2016-8812 Memory corruption in Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
- CVE-2021-1073 Information disclosure in NVIDIA GeForce Experience Software
- CVE-2022-42291 Path traversal in GeForce Experience
- CVE-2021-23175 Missing authorization in NVIDIA GeForce Experience Software
Sources
Also known as GHSA-65xq-x9jj-jf35.