CVE-2016-7389: 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 on Linux R304 before 304.132, R340 before 340.98, R367 before 367.55, R361_93 before 361.93.03, and R370 before 370.28 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) handler for mmap() where improper input validation may allow users to gain access to arbitrary physical memory, leading to an escalation of privileges.

Affected products

  • NVIDIA GPU Driver: version 304.79 only; version 340.52 only; version 361.91 only; version 365.19 only; version 368.81 only

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