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high 7.8

CVE-2016-8806 json

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vu…

published 2016-11-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9631

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • nvidia gpu_driver 342.00, 375.63

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-40663)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40663 NVIDIA Driver - Unchecked User-Provided Pointer in Escape 0x5000027 dos, 2016-10-31

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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