CVE-2016-8806: NVIDIA GPU Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape ID 0x5000027 where a pointer passed from an user to the driver is used without validation, leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver: from 340, before 342.00 (fixed in 342.00); from 375, before 375.63 (fixed in 375.63)

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