CVE-2016-4959

high

Published 2016-11-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, there is a Remote Desktop denial of service. A successful exploit of a vulnerable system will result in a kernel null pointer dereference, causing a blue screen crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
nvidia	gpu_driver	`{"startIncluding":"340","endExcluding":"341.96"}`	`341.96`
nvidia	gpu_driver	`{"startIncluding":"352.0","endExcluding":"354.99"}`	`354.99`
nvidia	gpu_driver	`{"startIncluding":"361","endExcluding":"362.77"}`	`362.77`
nvidia	gpu_driver	`{"startIncluding":"367","endExcluding":"368.39"}`	`368.39`
nvidia	geforce_910m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_920m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_920mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_930m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_930mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_940m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_940mx	`-`
nvidia	geforce_945m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gt_710	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gt_730	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1050	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1060	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1070	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_1080	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_950m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_960m	`-`
nvidia	geforce_gtx_965m	`-`
nvidia	nvs_310	`-`
nvidia	nvs_315	`-`
nvidia	nvs_510	`-`
nvidia	nvs_810	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k1200	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k420	`-`
nvidia	quadro_k620	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m1000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m2000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m2000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m3000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m4000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m4000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5000m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m500m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m5500	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m6000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_m600m	`-`
nvidia	quadro_p5000	`-`
nvidia	quadro_p6000	`-`
nvidia	titan_x	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

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