CVE-2016-4959: NVIDIA GPU Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, there is a Remote Desktop denial of service. A successful exploit of a vulnerable system will result in a kernel null pointer dereference, causing a blue screen crash.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver: from 340, before 341.96 (fixed in 341.96); from 352.0, before 354.99 (fixed in 354.99); from 361, before 362.77 (fixed in 362.77); from 367, before 368.39 (fixed in 368.39)

Published 2016-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.