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Home > Cybersecurity > Nvidia has patched the vulnerabilities in GPU drivers

Nvidia has patched the vulnerabilities in GPU drivers

Nvidia's newest drivers fix many security flaws that exist in both Windows and Linux GPU drivers.


Rusen Gobel Rusen Gobel
December 6, 2022
2 min read
Nvidia has patched the vulnerabilities in GPU drivers
  • Nvidia has released patches for its GPU drivers for Linux and Windows operating systems to fix the existing vulnerabilities.
  • The Windows version of the GPU drivers has vulnerabilities reaching up to a CVSS score of 8.8, while the most dangerous flaw in the Linux version reaches 7.8.
  • Nvidia urges users immediately update their drivers, which can easily be done in the GeForce Experience application in Windows.

Nvidia has recently released updates for its Windows and Linux GPU drivers that fix vulnerabilities. Some of those vulnerabilities can go up to 8.8 in the CVSS scoring system, which makes them high-severity vulnerabilities.

Several high-severity vulnerabilities

The most dangerous vulnerability that is fixed through the updates is CVE-2022-34669 with CVSS 8.8, affecting Windows users. It allows unprivileged regular users to access or modify system files, leading to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering. Shortly, it is bad.

The other vulnerability that has a base score higher than 8.0 is CVE-2022-34671 with 8.5, which also affects Windows users. It allows unprivileged users to cause an out-of-bounds write, which could lead to similar results with CVE-2022-34664.

Affects Linux drivers as well

The highest severity vulnerability affecting Linux users is CVE-2022-34670 with a CVSS score of 7.8, existing in the kernel mode layer handler. Nvidia summarizes this vulnerability as follows:

« Nvidia GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where an unprivileged regular user can cause truncation errors when casting a primitive to a primitive of smaller size causes data to be lost in the conversion, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure. »

There are also three more high-severity vulnerabilities in Linux drivers of Nvidia GPUs, which can be tracked as CVE-2022-42263, CVE-2022-34676, and CVE-2022-42264; all of them have CVSS scores of 7.1. You can also check all of the vulnerabilities in Nvidia’s blog post regarding those patches.

Nvidia urges users to update their drivers to the latest versions. Windows users can easily update their Nvidia drivers through GeForce Experience software and by selecting the Drivers tab. You can also use the following link to manually download and install the newest Nvidia drivers on your system:

Click here to download the latest Nvidia drivers for your system

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Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel is a news editor at Cloud7 News. With more than 10 years of experience, Rusen worked as a hardware and software news editor for technology sites such as Shiftdelete, Teknokolis, Hardware Plus, BT Haber. In addition, Rusen publishes consumer product reviews on his YouTube channel. While consumer electronics has been his main focus for years, now Rusen is more interested in WordPress and software development. He had contributed different web application projects in his professional career. Rusen had graduated from Istanbul University, department of Computer Engineering. Rusen has a very high passion for learning and writing for every kind of technology. That's why he has been working as a tech editor for more than ten years on several different technology magazines and online news portals.

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