CVE-2016-7389 Privilege escalation in Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla (all versions)

What is CVE-2016-7389?

CVE-2016-7389 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, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux R304 before 304.132, R340 before 340.98, R367 before 367.55, R361_93 before 361.93.03, and R370 before 370.28 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for mmap() where improper input validation may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7389?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7389?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-7389 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7389 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7389, GHSA-x5xm-6fpv-xpgq, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7389.