CVE-2016-8810 Privilege escalation in Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
An attacker can exploit an unvalidated array index in the NVIDIA GPU driver to cause denial of service or escalate privileges.
- 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-2016-8810?
CVE-2016-8810 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 for DxgDdiEscape ID 0x100009a where a value passed from an user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an internal array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8810?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Gpu Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2016-8810?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8810 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2016-8810 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-8810 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Driver
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6g98-c6x9-8cwp.