CVE-2017-6259

medium

Published 2017-07-28 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler where an incorrect detection and recovery from an invalid state produced by specific user actions may lead to denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`375.82-1`
sid	Fixed	`375.82-1`
forky	Fixed	`375.82-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`375.82-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`375.82-1`

FreeBSD Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
nvidia	gpu_driver	`-`

References

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

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