CVE-2016-8807 Memory corruption in Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
A stack buffer overflow in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver allows attackers to cause denial of service or escalate privileges via a crafted request.
- 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-2016-8807?
CVE-2016-8807 is a high-severity memory corruption 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 for DxgDdiEscape ID 0x10000e9 where a value is passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the size input to memcpy() causing a stack buffer overflow, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8807?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2016-8807?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8807 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2016-8807 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-8807 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Driver
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4m5c-vffp-6p57.