CVE-2017-6272

HIGH7.8EPSS 0.12%
Published: 9/22/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6272

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler 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 a denial of service or possible escalation of privileges.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)