What is the severity of CVE-2016-7390?

CVE-2016-7390 is considered a high severity vulnerability that can lead to potential escalation of privileges on affected NVIDIA GPU driver versions.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7390?

To fix CVE-2016-7390, update the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver to version 342.00 or later, or version 375.63 or later.

What products are affected by CVE-2016-7390?

CVE-2016-7390 affects NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products specifically using vulnerable driver versions prior to 342.00 and 375.63.

What causes CVE-2016-7390?

CVE-2016-7390 is caused by improper validation of a value passed from user mode to the NVIDIA driver in the kernel mode layer.

Is there a workaround for CVE-2016-7390?

There are no known workarounds for CVE-2016-7390; updating the driver is the recommended mitigation.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2016-7390

high

7.8

CWE

264 119

8/11/2016

6/8/2024

CVE-2016-7390: Buffer Overflow

First published: Tue Nov 08 2016(Updated: 8 months ago)

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 0x7000194 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 kernel driver	>=340<342.00
NVIDIA GPU kernel driver	>=375<375.63
Microsoft Windows Operating System

Remedy

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-7390?
CVE-2016-7390 is considered a high severity vulnerability that can lead to potential escalation of privileges on affected NVIDIA GPU driver versions.
How do I fix CVE-2016-7390?
To fix CVE-2016-7390, update the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver to version 342.00 or later, or version 375.63 or later.
What products are affected by CVE-2016-7390?
CVE-2016-7390 affects NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products specifically using vulnerable driver versions prior to 342.00 and 375.63.
What causes CVE-2016-7390?
CVE-2016-7390 is caused by improper validation of a value passed from user mode to the NVIDIA driver in the kernel mode layer.
Is there a workaround for CVE-2016-7390?
There are no known workarounds for CVE-2016-7390; updating the driver is the recommended mitigation.

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