PT-2017-16975
CVE-2017-6277
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Published
2017-09-22
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Updated
2017-09-28
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.2
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape, where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated. This unvalidated value is used as an index to an array, which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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