VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6260

medium
Published 2017-07-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer helper function where an incorrect calculation of string length may lead to denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver-

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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