Vulnerability Details
CVE-2016-8805
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x7000014 where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8806
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from a user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8807
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x10000e9 where a value is passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8808
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x70000d5 where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8809
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x70001b2 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8810
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x100009a where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8811
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x7000170 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-8812
NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvstreamkms.sys) allowing a user to cause a stack buffer overflow with specially crafted executable paths, leading to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.9 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVE-2016-7391
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x100010b where a missing array bounds check can allow a user to write to kernel memory, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:ND)
CVE-2016-7387
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x600000D where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7385
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x700010d where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7390
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x7000194 where a value passed from a 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.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7382
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7384
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) where unchecked input/output lengths in UVMLiteController Device IO Control handling may lead to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7388
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler where a NULL pointer dereference caused by invalid user input may lead to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7381
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a user input to index an array is not bounds checked, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 5 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7383
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in a memory mapping API in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 5.7 CVSS Temporal Score: 4.5 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
CVE-2016-7386
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape ID 0x70000D4 which may lead to leaking of kernel memory contents to user space through an uninitialized buffer.
CVSS Base Score: 1.7 CVSS Temporal Score: 1.3 CVSS v2 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a local security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration. NVIDIA doesn't know of any exploits to these issues at this time.
Affected Products
|
CVE |
Product |
Impacted Installed Component |
OS |
|
CVE-2016-8805 through CVE-2016-8811 CVE-2016-7391 CVE-2016-7387 CVE-2016-7385 CVE-2016-7390 CVE-2016-7384 CVE-2016-7388 CVE-2016-7381 CVE-2016-7383 CVE-2016-7382 CVE-2016-7386 |
Quadro NVS Tesla GeForce GRID |
Graphics Driver |
Windows |
|
CVE-2016-8812 |
Quadro NVS Tesla GeForce |
Windows |
Fixes
You can download the fixes from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.
| Product | Product Series | OS | Driver Branch | 1st Version Including the Fix |
| Quadro NVS | All | Windows | R375 | 375.63 |
| R340 | 342.00 | |||
| Tesla | All | Windows | R367 | 369.73 |
| GRID | GRID Series | Windows | R367 | GRID Software 4.1 369.71 |
| R361 | GRID Software 3.3 363.24 | |||
| R352 | GRID Software 2.5 356.60 | |||
| GeForce | GPUs with Tesla architecture | Windows | R340 | 342.00 |
| GeForce | All | Windows | R375 | 375.63 |
| GeForce Experience | All | Windows | R375 | GFE 3.1.0.52 |
| R340 | GFE 2.11.4.125 |
Mitigations
None
Acknowledgements
NVIDIA was informed of the following CVEs by Oliver Chang, working with Google Project Zero: CVE-2016-8805, CVE-2016-8806, CVE-2016-8807, CVE-2016-8808, CVE-2016-8809, CVE-2016-8810, CVE-2016-8811, CVE-2016-8812, CVE-2016-7391, CVE-2016-7387, CVE-2016-7385, CVE-2016-7390, CVE-2016-7384, and CVE-2016-7386
Revision History
| Revision | Date | Description |
| 5.0 | March 9, 2017 | Added information about fixes available for affected NVIDIA GRID products |
| 4.1 | January 11, 2017 | Corrected a typographical error in the name of the DxgkDdiEscape function |
| 4.0 | January 4, 2017 | Added information about fixes available for affected NVIDIA GRID products |
| 3.0 | November 21, 2016 | Added information about fixes available for affected NVIDIA GRID products |
| 2.0 | November 16, 2016 | Added information about fixes available for affected Tesla products |
| 1.1 | November 2, 2016 | Added information about fixes available for GeForce GPUs with Tesla architecture |
| 1.0 | October 28, 2016 | Initial release |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How do I know what driver version I have installed?
- Launch Windows Device Manager.
- Select Display Adapters.
- Select the NVIDIA GPU node and right-click.
- Select the Driver tab.
The driver version can be deciphered as shown in the following examples: 10.18.13.6472 is 364.72 and 10.18.13.472 is 304.72
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