# CVE-2016-5025: For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer causes a denial of service

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-11-08 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions): version range not reported

## Description

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, improper sanitization of parameters in the NVAPI support layer causes a denial of service vulnerability (blue screen crash) within the NVIDIA Windows graphics drivers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Quadro, NVS, GeForce (all versions), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4213
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500070
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93251

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