CVE-2017-6268

HIGH

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - Denial of Service or Privilege Escalation via DxgkDdiEscape Handler

Title source: llm

Description

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a value passed from a user to the driver is not correctly validated and used as the index to an array which may lead to denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4544

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101007

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 14.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

nvidia/gpu_driver

Nvidia Corporation/GPU Display Driver All

Published Sep 22, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026