PT-2016-7595

CVE-2016-8826

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Published

2016-12-16

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Updated

2017-03-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer of the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, where a user can cause a GPU interrupt storm. This can lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability affects the nvlddmkm.sys driver for Windows and the nvidia.ko driver for Linux.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
MGASA-2017-0013
MGASA-2017-0025
USN-3173-1
USN-3173-2
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