Security Bulletin: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit - 18 February 2025

Updated 02/19/2025 01:49 PM

NVIDIA has released a software update for NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit. To protect your system, download and install this software update from the CUDA Toolkit Downloads page.

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Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE‑2024‑53870 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53871 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the nvdisasm binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to nvdisasm. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53872 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53873 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for Windows contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53874 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53875 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53876 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the nvdisasm binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to nvdisasm. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53877 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the nvdisasm binary, where a user could cause a NULL pointer exception by passing a malformed ELF file to nvdisasm. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 3.3 Low CWE‑476 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53878 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for Linux and Windows contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause a crash by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 2.8 Low CWE‑1284 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑53879 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for Linux and Windows contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause a crash by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L 2.8 Low CWE‑1284 Denial of service

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends evaluating the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the NVIDIA products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

CVE IDs Addressed Affected Products Platform or OS Affected Versions Updated Version
CVE‑2024-53870
CVE‑2024-53871
CVE‑2024-53872
CVE‑2024-53873
CVE‑2024-53874
CVE‑2024-53875
CVE‑2024-53876
CVE‑2024-53877
CVE‑2024-53878
CVE‑2024-53879
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Windows, Linux All versions up to CUDA Toolkit 12.8 CUDA Toolkit 12.8

Notes

  • Earlier software releases of this product are also affected. If you are using an earlier release, upgrade to the latest release version.

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks the following for reporting these issues:

CVE‑2024-53870, CVE‑2024-53871, CVE‑2024-53872, CVE‑2024-53873, CVE‑2024-53874, CVE‑2024-53875, CVE‑2024-53876, CVE‑2024-53877, CVE‑2024-53878: Kai Lu - Palo Alto Networks

CVE‑2024‑53879: nEINEI - Tencent-zhuquelab

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 18 February 2025 Initial release

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