CVE-2016-7382: NVIDIA GPU Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, GeForce, and Tesla products, NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys for Windows or nvidia.ko for Linux) handler where a missing permissions check may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver: version 304.131 only; version 340.98 only; version 361.93.02 only; version 367.44 only; version 367.54 only; version 370.23 only

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