Description
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel-mode color transform path where excessive kernel stack use occurs when evaluating YCbCr420 display emulation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
Published: 2026-09-30
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Denial of Service
Action: Apply Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

A kernel‑mode color transform path in NVIDIA’s GPU Display Driver for Windows leaks excessive kernel stack space when processing YCbCr420 display emulation. The resulting stack exhaustion can cause the system or driver to fail, leading to a denial of service. The weakness is a stack‑based buffer overflow (CWE‑121).

Affected Systems

NVIDIA GPU Display Drivers for Windows that support GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS, and Tesla product lines are affected. The CVE does not specify fixed or affected driver versions, so any installations of the NVIDIA GPU driver package that support the affected color transform path are potentially vulnerable.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 5.5 indicates a moderate severity vulnerability. EPSS is not available, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA’s KEV catalog, suggesting no public exploit is known. Exploitation would likely require manipulating a YCbCr420 image to trigger the kernel stack overflow, so threat is limited to local or potentially remote code provided the attacker can influence the image processing path. Given the lack of public exploits and moderate severity, a risk rating of moderate applies, but patching is still recommended to protect against possible future exploitation.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 30, 2026 at 18:31 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Install the latest NVIDIA GPU driver release that contains the fix for the stack exhaustion in the color transform path.
  • If a vendor patch is unavailable, restrict or disable the use of YCbCr420 display emulation and/or related color transform features that invoke the vulnerable code path.
  • Continuously monitor NVIDIA driver stability and watch for driver crashes or kernel panics that may indicate exploitation attempts.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 30, 2026 at 18:31 UTC.

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History

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Nvidia
Nvidia geforce
Nvidia nvs
Nvidia quadro
Nvidia rtx
Nvidia tesla
Vendors & Products Nvidia
Nvidia geforce
Nvidia nvs
Nvidia quadro
Nvidia rtx
Nvidia tesla

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Kernel Stack Overflow in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver Leading to Denial of Service

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel-mode color transform path where excessive kernel stack use occurs when evaluating YCbCr420 display emulation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
Weaknesses CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-30T17:59:46.847Z

Reserved: 2026-05-19T19:55:41.286Z

Link: CVE-2026-47506

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-30T17:55:44.726Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-30T16:17:15.730

Modified: 2026-09-30T18:18:21.110

Link: CVE-2026-47506

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-01T01:15:12Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-121

    Stack-based Buffer Overflow