CVE-2017-6271 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver. Specifically, the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiCreateAllocation fails to validate untrusted user input used as a divisor when processing block linear information, leading to a potential divide-by-zero error. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can be exploited locally with low attack complexity, resulting in a denial of service without impacting confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in the KEV catalog, with minimal community discussion and no media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.