Nvidia Security Bullitin discloses “High Severity” vulnerabilities on old drivers

Update your drivers – Nvidia has fixed a lot of vulnerabilities with their Newest GeForce drivers

Nvidia has released a new security bulletin detailing seven new vulnerabilities in its GPU display drivers and VGPU software. These vulnerabilities range from medium to high severity, with several that could lead to “data tampering, and code execution.”

Nvidia’s display driver vulnerabilities impact GeForce, RTX, Quadro, Tesla, and NVS users on Windows and Linux. To mitigate these issues, Nvidia recommends updating to its latest GPU drivers. Below are Nvidia’s official guidelines.

Gamers should note that all of these new vulnerabilities are addressed with Nvidia’s GeForce 596.36 or newer GPU drivers.

NVIDIA has released a software security update for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver to address the issues that are disclosed in this bulletin.

To protect your system, download and install this software update through the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page or, for the vGPU software and Cloud Gaming updates, through the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

– Nvidia Security

(Information from Nvidia)

To ensure that your system is safe, users of Nvidia GPUs should update their systems to Nvidia’s newest display drivers. Note that Nvidia’s newest Game Ready/Studio drivers aren’t susceptible to these vulnerabilities. Furthermore, these drivers have been available for over a month.

PC gamers with the Nvidia App (or GeForce Experience) installed should be prompted to install Nvidia’s newest display drivers. If you want to update your GPU drivers manually, you can do so through Nvidia’s GeForce driver download page. Full details about Nvidia’s security disclosure are available here.