PT-2016-6225 · Nvidia · Nvs+3

Daniel Cornel · Published 2016-11-08 · Updated 2019-05-30 · CVE-2016-5025

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer, leading to a denial of service vulnerability that results in a blue screen crash within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-5025

Affected Products

Geforce

Nvidia Quadro

Nvidia Windows Graphics Drivers

Nvs

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5025 · Vendor Advisory
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4213 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5025 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93251 · Note
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500070 · Note