Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-0342 - Incorrect Calculation vulnerability in Nvidia GPU Driver
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
All versions of the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler where incorrect calculation may cause an invalid address access leading to denial of service or potential escalation of privileges.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Attack through Shared Data An attacker exploits a data structure shared between multiple applications or an application pool to affect application behavior. Data may be shared between multiple applications or between multiple threads of a single application. Data sharing is usually accomplished through mutual access to a single memory location. If an attacker can manipulate this shared data (usually by co-opting one of the applications or threads) the other applications or threads using the shared data will often continue to trust the validity of the compromised shared data and use it in their calculations. This can result in invalid trust assumptions, corruption of additional data through the normal operations of the other users of the shared data, or even cause a crash or compromise of the sharing applications.
- Integer Attacks An attacker takes advantage of the structure of integer variables to cause these variables to assume values that are not expected by an application. For example, adding one to the largest positive integer in a signed integer variable results in a negative number. Negative numbers may be illegal in an application and the application may prevent an attacker from providing them directly, but the application may not consider that adding two positive numbers can create a negative number do to the structure of integer storage formats.
- Pointer Attack This attack involves an attacker manipulating a pointer within a target application resulting in the application accessing an unintended memory location. This can result in the crashing of the application or, for certain pointer values, access to data that would not normally be possible or the execution of arbitrary code. Since pointers are simply integer variables, Integer Attacks may often be used in Pointer Attacks.
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows |
| NASL id | NVIDIA_WIN_CVE_2017_0355.NASL |
| description | The version of the NVIDIA GPU display driver installed on the remote Windows host is 375.x prior to 377.35 or 382.x prior to 382.05. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An uninitialized pointer flaw exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0341) - An out-of-bounds access error exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler due to certain incorrect calculations. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0342) - A race condition exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler due to improper synchronization of certain functions. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0343) - An unspecified flaw exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape that allows a local attacker to access arbitrary physical memory and gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0344) - An out-of-bounds access error exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape due to improper validation of user-supplied array size input. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0345) - A buffer overflow condition exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgDdiEscape due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0346) - An array-indexing error exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0347) - A NULL pointer dereference flaw exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0348) - An invalid pointer flaw exists in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to improper validation of a user-supplied pointer before it is dereferenced for a write operation. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or potentially to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-0349) - A flaw exists in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgDdiEscape due to the driver improperly locking on certain conditions. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2017-0353) - A flaw exists in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape where a call to certain functions requiring lower IRQL can be made under raised IRQL. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2017-0354) - A flaw exists in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape due to accessing paged memory while holding a spin lock. A local attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2017-0355) |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 100259 |
| published | 2017-05-17 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100259 |
| title | NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver 375.x < 377.35 / 382.x < 382.05 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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