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CVE-2016-4961

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
08/11/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:geforce_experience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - (including)
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_910m:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_920m:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_920mx:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_930m:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_930mx:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_940m:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_940mx:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_945m:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gt_710:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gt_730:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gtx_1050:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gtx_1060:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gtx_1070:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:nvidia:geforce_gtx_1080:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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