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CVE-2016-8811
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a…
High7.8EPSS 1.6%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- nvidia
Description
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 0x7000170 where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
- affected Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
References (4)
- 40662 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-10822 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93988 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4247 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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