Medium severity · published Nov 8, 2016
CVE-2016-5025
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer causes a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash)…
6.6
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer causes a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GD
Gpu Driver · Nvidia
340 before 341.96; 352.0 before 354.99; 361 before 362.77; 367 before 368.39 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5025
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5025
Patch
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4213
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93251
Third Party Advisory
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500070
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