Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-6340

Title: Nvidia Nview Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-6340

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 07, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.60%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-6340: keystone.exe in nVIDIA nView allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a long command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses security boundaries. If not, then this is not a vulnerability.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

nvidia 1

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1973 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452439/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21260 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1973 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452439/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21260

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-6340 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29170

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 07, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.