CVE-2016-8820: NVIDIA GPU Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape where a check on a function return value is missing, potentially allowing an uninitialized value to be used as the source of a strcpy() call, leading to denial of service or information disclosure.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.