CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-8812

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

For NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA GeForce Experience R340 before GFE 2.11.4.125 and R375 before GFE 3.1.0.52 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.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to serious security issues, including denial of service or unauthorized privilege escalation by an attacker, threatening system integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update NVIDIA GeForce Experience to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized activities.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA GeForce Experience R340 before GFE 2.11.4.125 and R375 before GFE 3.1.0.52 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS