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CVE-2016-4961
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.37%
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- nvidia
Description
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions)
- affected Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions)
References (3)
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4213 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500070 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93251 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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