Detections
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CVE-2016-8820
medium
Description
All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape where a check on a function return value is missing, potentially allowing an uninitialized value to be used as the source of a strcpy() call, leading to denial of service or information disclosure.
References
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-9645