What is the severity of CVE-2016-7385?

CVE-2016-7385 has been assigned a high severity rating due to potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7385?

To address CVE-2016-7385, you should update the NVIDIA GPU driver to version 342.00 or above and also to version 375.63 or above.

What products are affected by CVE-2016-7385?

CVE-2016-7385 affects various NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products running earlier versions of the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-7385?

CVE-2016-7385 is classified as a privilege escalation vulnerability within the kernel mode layer of the NVIDIA GPU driver.

What is the exploit target of CVE-2016-7385?

CVE-2016-7385 targets the kernel mode driver nvlddmkm.sys, where user input is improperly validated.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2016-7385

high

7.8

CWE

264 119

8/11/2016

6/8/2024

CVE-2016-7385: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Nov 08 2016(Updated: )

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 0x700010d where a value passed from a user to the driver is used without validation as the index to an internal array, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Credit: psirt@nvidia.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Nvidia GPU Driver	>=340<342.00
Nvidia GPU Driver	>=375<375.63
Microsoft Windows

Remedy

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4247

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-7385?
CVE-2016-7385 has been assigned a high severity rating due to potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
How do I fix CVE-2016-7385?
To address CVE-2016-7385, you should update the NVIDIA GPU driver to version 342.00 or above and also to version 375.63 or above.
What products are affected by CVE-2016-7385?
CVE-2016-7385 affects various NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products running earlier versions of the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver.
What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-7385?
CVE-2016-7385 is classified as a privilege escalation vulnerability within the kernel mode layer of the NVIDIA GPU driver.
What is the exploit target of CVE-2016-7385?
CVE-2016-7385 targets the kernel mode driver nvlddmkm.sys, where user input is improperly validated.

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