PT-2018-17440
CVE-2018-6251
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Published
2018-04-02
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Updated
2018-05-11
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 the DirectX 10 Usermode driver, where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause writing to unallocated memory. This can lead to denial of service or potential code execution.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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