CVE-2016-8812: nvidia geforce_experience

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-8812 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in nvidia geforce_experience. EPSS estimates a 1.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 08-11-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.