VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4961

medium
Published 2016-11-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVStreamKMS.sys API layer caused a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
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 nvidiageforce_experience{"endIncluding":"-"}
nvidia nvidiageforce_945m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_910m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_920m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_920mx-
nvidia nvidiageforce_930m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_930mx-
nvidia nvidiageforce_940m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_940mx-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gt_710-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gt_730-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_1050-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_1060-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_1070-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_1080-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_950m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_960m-
nvidia nvidiageforce_gtx_965m-
nvidia nvidianvs_310-
nvidia nvidianvs_315-
nvidia nvidianvs_510-
nvidia nvidianvs_810-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_k1200-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_k420-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_k620-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m1000m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m2000-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m2000m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m3000m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m4000-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m4000m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m5000-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m5000m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m500m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m5500-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m6000-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_m600m-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_p5000-
nvidia nvidiaquadro_p6000-
nvidia nvidiatitan_x-

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.