Five security vulnerabilities have been found within the Nvidia GPU Display Driver. All versions of Nvidia’s GeForce drivers prior to 431.60 are susceptible to local code execution, denial of service, or escalation of privileges, and Nvidia recommends updating your drivers immediately to patch things up.

You can download the necessary patched GeForce drivers (via Bleeping Computer), version 431.60, from the Nvidia website right now, and it’s recommended that you do so lickety-split to keep your system secure. Users with Quadro or Tesla cards will need to download the corresponding drivers for their systems, and those on R418 or R400 driver versions will need to wait until August 12 and 19 respectively for the necessary fixes.

While patching your system and keeping it up-to-date is always the best course of action and best practice, all of the flaws listed today require local access in order to be exploited. That means you’re unlikely to see any nefarious goings on in regards to your system without some ding dong in a balaclava physically sat in your office or bedroom.

Windows driver versions 431.23, 425.85, and 412.39 also contain the security update, and may be distributed by your system vendor.

Posted: Aug 06, 2019 8:56 am
Related Forum: PC Gaming Forum

Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/driver-update-security-vulnerability-august-2019