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 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from an user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

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Updated: 2024-08-06T02:35:02.242Z

Reserved: 2016-10-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8806

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-11-08T20:59:19.710

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-8806

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