Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - January 2025

Updated 01/30/2025 09:21 AM

NVIDIA has released a software security update for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver to address the issues that are disclosed in this bulletin.

To protect your system, download and install this software update through the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page or, for the vGPU software and Cloud Gaming updates, through the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

Go to NVIDIA Product Security.


Details

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

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE‑2024‑0150 NVIDIA GPU display driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where data is written past the end or before the beginning of a buffer. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure, denial of service, or data tampering. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H 7.1 High CWE‑787 Information disclosure, denial of service, and data tampering
CVE‑2024‑0147 NVIDIA GPU display driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where referencing memory after it has been freed can lead to denial of service or data tampering. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 5.5 Medium CWE‑416 Denial of service, data tampering
CVE‑2024‑53869 NVIDIA Unified Memory driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could leak uninitialized memory. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 5.5 Medium CWE‑459 Information disclosure
CVE‑2024‑0131
NVIDIA GPU kernel driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where a potential user-mode attacker could read  a buffer with an incorrect length. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 4.4 Medium CWE‑805 Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑0149 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow an attacker unauthorized access to files. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to limited information disclosure. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N 3.3 Low CWE‑125 Information disclosure

NVIDIA vGPU Software

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE‑2024‑0146 NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager, where a malicious guest could cause memory corruption. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, or data tampering. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.8 High CWE‑120 Code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2024‑53881 NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the host driver, where it can allow a guest to cause an interrupt storm on the host, which may lead to denial of service. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 5.5 Medium CWE‑459 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 consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVEs Addressed in Each Windows Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVEs addressed by the update in each Windows driver branch.

Windows Driver Branch CVEs Addressed
R535, R550, R560, R565, R570 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0147, CVE-2024-0150

Windows Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions
 

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Windows driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Software Product Operating System Driver Branch Affected Driver Versions Updated Driver Version
GeForce Windows R570 All driver versions prior to 572.16 572.16
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS Windows R570 All driver versions prior to 572.16 572.16
R550 All driver versions prior to 553.62 553.62
R535 All driver versions prior to 539.19 539.19
Tesla Windows R570 All driver versions prior to 572.13 572.13
R550 All driver versions prior to 553.62 553.62
R535 All driver versions prior to 539.19 539.19

CVEs Addressed in Each Linux Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVEs addressed by the update in each Linux driver branch.

Linux Driver Branch CVEs Addressed
R550, R570 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0147, CVE-2024-0149, CVE-2024-0150, CVE-2024-53869
R535 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0147, CVE-2024-0149, CVE-2024-0150

Linux Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Linux driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Software Product Operating System Driver Branch Affected Driver Versions Updated Driver Version
GeForce Linux R570 All driver versions prior to 570.86.16 570.86.16
R550 All driver versions prior to 550.144.03 550.144.03
R535 All driver versions prior to 535.230.02 535.230.02
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS Linux R570 All driver versions prior to 570.86.16 570.86.16
R550 All driver versions prior to 550.144.03 550.144.03
R535 All driver versions prior to 535.230.02 535.230.02
Tesla Linux R570 All driver versions prior to 570.86.15 570.86.15
R550 All driver versions prior to 550.144.03 550.144.03
R535 All driver versions prior to 535.230.02 535.230.02

Notes

  • Your computer hardware vendor might provide you with Windows GPU display driver versions including 566.24, 561.21, 553.42, and 539.07, which also contain the security updates.
  • The table above might not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and might be updated as more information becomes available.
  • Earlier software GPU branch releases that support these products might also be affected. If you are using an earlier branch release for which an update version is not listed above, upgrade to the latest branch release.

Security Updates for NVIDIA vGPU Software

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows vGPU Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Windows vGPU driver branch.

Windows Driver Branch CVE IDs Addressed
R550, R535 CVE‑2024‑0131

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux vGPU Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Linux vGPU driver branch.

Linux Driver Branch CVE IDs Addressed
R550 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0149, CVE-2024-53869
R535 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0149

CVE IDs Addressed in Each vGPU Manager Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each vGPU Manager driver branch.

vGPU Manager Driver Branch CVE IDs Addressed
R550 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0146, CVE-2024-0147, CVE-2024-0149, CVE-2024-0150, CVE-2024-53881
R535 CVE-2024-0131, CVE-2024-0147, CVE-2024-0149, CVE-2024-0150, CVE-2024-53881

Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions

The following table lists NVIDIA vGPU software components affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update. Download the updates through the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

CVE IDs Addressed vGPU Software Component Operating System Affected Versions Updated Version
vGPU Software Driver vGPU Software Driver
CVE‑2024‑0131 Guest driver Windows All versions up to and including 17.4 553.24 17.5 553.62
All versions up to and including 16.8 538.95 16.9 539.19
CVE‑2024‑0131
CVE‑2024‑0149
CVE‑2024‑53889
Guest driver Linux All versions up to and including 17.4 550.127.05 17.5 550.144.03
All versions up to and including 16.8 535.216.01 16.9 535.230.02
CVE‑2024‑0131
CVE‑2024‑0146
CVE‑2024‑0147
CVE‑2024‑0149
CVE‑2024‑0150
CVE‑2024‑53881
Virtual GPU Manager Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM, Ubuntu All versions up to and including 17.4 550.127.06 17.5 550.144.02
All versions up to and including 16.8 535.216.01 16.9 535.230.02
CVE‑2024‑0131
CVE‑2024‑0146
CVE‑2024‑0147
CVE‑2024‑0150
CVE‑2024‑53881
Virtual GPU Manager Azure Local All versions up to and including 17.4 553.20 17.5 553.56

Notes:

  • The table above might not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and might be updated as more information becomes available.
  • Earlier software branch releases that support these products might also be affected. If you are using an earlier branch release for which an update version is not listed above, upgrade to the latest branch release.


Mitigations

See Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, or Security Updates for NVIDIA vGPU Software for the version to install.

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks the following people for reporting the issues to us:

CVE‑2024‑0131: Xiaochen Zou

CVE‑2024‑0149: Wolfgang Frisch

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 January 16, 2025 Initial release
2.0 January 21, 2025 Removed R570 text appearing in document
3.0 January 30, 2025 Added R570 affected product and version information

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