CVE-2016-8812

high

Published 2016-11-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA GeForce Experience R340 before GFE 2.11.4.125 and R375 before GFE 3.1.0.52 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvstreamkms.sys) allowing a user to cause a stack buffer overflow with specially crafted executable paths, leading to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40660 local windows verified

Google Security Research · 2016-10-31

NVIDIA Driver - NvStreamKms 'PsSetCreateProcessNotifyRoutineEx Local Stack Buffer Overflow Callback / Local Privilege Escalation

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
nvidia	geforce_experience	`{"endIncluding":"-"}`
nvidia	geforce_910m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_920m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_920mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_930m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_930mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_940m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_940mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_945m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gt_710	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gt_730	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1050	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1060	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1070	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1080	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_950m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_960m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_965m	`-`
nvidia	nvs_310	`-`
nvidia	nvs_315	`-`
nvidia	nvs_510	`-`
nvidia	nvs_810	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k1200	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k420	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k620	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m1000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m2000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m2000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m3000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m4000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m4000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m500m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5500	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m6000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m600m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_p5000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_p6000	`-`
nvidia	titan_x	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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