CVE-2016-7389

high
Published 2016-11-08 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver on Linux R304 before 304.132, R340 before 340.98, R367 before 367.55, R361_93 before 361.93.03, and R370 before 370.28 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for mmap() where improper input validation may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed367.57-1
debian debianbullseyefixed367.57-1
debian debianforkyfixed367.57-1
debian debiansidfixed367.57-1
debian debiantrixiefixed367.57-1
linux linux-kernelnot-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver304.79
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver340.52
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver361.91
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver365.19
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver368.81

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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