CVE-2016-8812

high
Published 2016-11-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
8.8

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA GeForce Experience R340 before GFE 2.11.4.125 and R375 before GFE 3.1.0.52 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvstreamkms.sys) allowing a user to cause a stack buffer overflow with specially crafted executable paths, leading to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@nvidia.com — http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4247

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
nvidia nvidiageforce_experience{"endIncluding":"-"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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