NVIDIA GeForce Users Must Update Their GPU Drivers As 8 High Risk Vulnerabilities Discovered
All NVIDIA GeForce GPUs are at high risk as the company finds several vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers that can let hackers exploit your system.
NVIDIA urges users to update to the latest GeForce display and VGPU drivers to ensure their system remains free from any vulnerabilities
NVIDIA has found several vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers that can allow hackers to exploit systems using GeForce GPUs. Not just gaming GPUs such as the GeForce series and RTX series, but professional and workstation GPUs too. These vulnerabilities have a high-risk severity and can range from 7 to over 8 on the severity scale, which NVIDIA wants its users to fix through a driver update.
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Other products that are affected by these vulnerabilities are NVS and Tesla, which can be fixed via the latest drivers as shared by NVIDIA. The flaws exist in the previous drivers which affect both NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and NVIDIA VGPU Software. As per the information shared by the company, this can allow hackers to execute malicious code on users' systems, and steal and tamper with personal data.
For all the vulnerabilities on the GPU Display Driver, NVIDIA states:
The severity can be 7.8-8.2, which is pretty high for users to take lightly. For VGPU Software, the risk can be either 7.1 or 7.8 based on the two vulnerabilities found. NVIDIA recommends updating to driver 566.03/553.24/538.95 for Windows OS users, who currently own a GeForce, RTX, Quadro, and NVS GPU. For NVIDIA's Tesla series products, it's recommended to update to the 553.24/538.95 driver to ensure secure operation.
Linux users are also advised to update to the latest drivers. For GeForce GPUs, driver version 565.57.01/550.127.05/535.216.01 will be the latest update. For RTX, Quadro, and NVS GPUs, users should update to 565.57.01/550.127.05/535.216.01 and for Tesla GPUs, driver versions
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