CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-5025

MEDIUM
6.6
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer causes a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

How to fix

Remediation Available
gpu driverNVD
Affected:>= 367, < 368.39Fixed in:368.39CVE-2016-5025derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.39%probability of exploitation in 30 days
31stpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 31% of all known CVEs.

References

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