CVE-2016-7388 Null dereference in Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

What is CVE-2016-7388?

CVE-2016-7388 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Driver, 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, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler where a NULL pointer dereference caused by invalid user input may lead to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7388?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7388?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7388 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-7388 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7388 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Driver

• CVE-2019-5684 Memory corruption in GPU Display Driver Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-5053 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-5986 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2019-5685 Memory corruption in GPU Display Driver Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6247 Null dereference in GPU Display Driver High 8.8

All Nvidia Gpu Driver vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c2qf-w27f-867j.