Nvidia urges people to update GPU drivers due to “high” security risks – WGB

Nvidia has printed an official bulletin urging individuals to replace their Nvidia graphics playing cards to the newest drivers with a purpose to be protected 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 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 would possibly result in code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, info disclosure, and information tampering.”

To fight the menace 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 page here or you are able to do it by means of Nvidia’s personal software program resembling GeForce Expertise. Relying on how you might have the software program arrange, your card could have already been up to date, nevertheless it’s finest 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 typically a very good follow to replace your drivers anyway as Nvidia consistently places out tweaks to help efficiency within the newest video games.