Nvidia has revealed an official bulletin urging individuals to replace their Nvidia graphics playing cards to the most recent drivers as a way to be secure from a “vulnerability” that may fee from 7.8-8.2 on Nvidia’s scale, which is sufficient to fee the danger as “excessive.”
NVIDIA GPU Show Driver for Home windows incorporates a vulnerability within the person mode layer, the place an unprivileged common person could cause an out-of-bounds learn,” says the bulletin. “A profitable exploit of this vulnerability may result in code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, info disclosure, and information tampering.”
To fight the risk Nvidia has launched new updates for its playing cards, and customers ought to be certain that they’re up to date. You are able to do this manually by visiting Nvidia’s drivers web page right here or you are able to do it via Nvidia’s personal software program comparable to GeForce Expertise. Relying on how you’ve the software program arrange, your card might have already been up to date, nevertheless it’s greatest to double examine.
For GeForce GPUs, driver model 565.57.01/550.127.05/535.216.01 would be the latest replace obtainable. For RTX, Quadro, and NVS GPUs, the most recent is 565.57.01/550.127.05/535.216.01. For Tesla GPUs, driver variations 550.127.05/535.216.01.
Safety dangers apart, it’s typically an excellent observe to replace your drivers anyway as Nvidia continuously places out tweaks to help efficiency within the newest video games.
