PT-2017-16961 · Nvidia+1 · Nvidia Gpu Display Driver+1

Published 2017-07-28 · Updated 2017-10-23 · CVE-2017-6259

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an incorrect detection and recovery from an invalid state produced by specific user actions in the kernel mode layer handler, which may lead to denial of service.

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

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6259

USN-3461-1

Affected Products

Nvidia Gpu Display Driver

Ubuntu

References · 20

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6257 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3461-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6259 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6266 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3461-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6259 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6259 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6267 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6259 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6259 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6257 · Security Note
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4525 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6259 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6272 · Vendor Advisory