FKIE_CVE-2016-2557

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-12 14:59 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, which trigger uninitialized or out-of-bounds memory access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4060Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_5551Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4060Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_5551Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nvidia gpu_driver_r340 431.61
nvidia gpu_driver_r352 353.82
microsoft windows *
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