CVE-2017-6270

MEDIUM

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - Denial of Service via DxgkDdiCreateAllocation Divisor Handling

Title source: llm

Description

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiCreateAllocation where untrusted user input is used as a divisor without validation during a calculation which may lead to a potential divide by zero and denial of service.

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/101002

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 16.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-369

Status published

Products (2)

nvidia/gpu_driver

Nvidia Corporation/GPU Display Driver All

Published Sep 22, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026