Nvidia has printed an official bulletin urging folks to replace their Nvidia graphics playing cards to the newest drivers with a view to be secure from a “vulnerability” that may price from 7.8-8.2 on Nvidia’s scale, which is sufficient to price the danger as “excessive.”
NVIDIA GPU Show Driver for Home windows comprises 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 make sure 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 by means of Nvidia’s personal software program reminiscent of GeForce Expertise. Relying on how you could have the software program arrange, your card could 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 out there. For RTX, Quadro, and NVS GPUs, the newest 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 usually a great observe to replace your drivers anyway as Nvidia continuously places out tweaks to help efficiency within the newest video games.