What is CVE-2016-4961?

CVE-2016-4961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Geforce_910m, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-11-08.

How severe is CVE-2016-4961?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Nvidia Geforce_910m

CVE-2016-4961

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

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.000 (15.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
93251 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4961?: CVE-2016-4961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Geforce_910m, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-11-08.
How severe is CVE-2016-4961?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.