NVIDIA GPU Kernel Driver Escape

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-5551 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation, potential information disclosure, crashes or denial of service Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide Summary Description: On March 21, 2016, NVIDIA announced three high-severity driver vulnerabilities. These driver...

CVE-2016-2557

The CVE-2016-2557 issue affects NVIDIA’s Windows GPU graphics drivers in the Kernel Mode Driver Escape interface, specifically versions preceding 341.95 for the R340 line and preceding 354.74 for the R352 line. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to read kernel memory, crash the driver, or ...