Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7382

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys for Windows or nvidia.ko for Linux) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.
Published Date November 8, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory