CVE-2016-8820

medium

Published 2016-12-16 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.1

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

VIR risk

6.1

Description

All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape where a check on a function return value is missing, potentially allowing an uninitialized value to be used as the source of a strcpy() call, leading to denial of service or information disclosure.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

61%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
nvidia	gpu_driver	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-200

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