Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - February 2024

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 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.

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE ID	Description	Vector	Base Score	Severity	CWE	Impacts
CVE‑2024‑0071	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the user mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause an out-of-bounds write. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	7.8	High	CWE‑125	Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2024‑0073	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer when the driver is performing an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	7.8	High	CWE‑250	Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑2024‑0074	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker may access a memory location after the end of the buffer. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service and data tampering.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	7.1	High	CWE‑788	Denial of service, data tampering
CVE‑2024‑0078	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a user in a guest can cause a NULL-pointer dereference in the host, which may lead to denial of service.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	6.5	Medium	CWE‑476	Denial of service
CVE‑2024‑0075	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where a user may cause a NULL-pointer dereference by accessing passed parameters the validity of which has not been checked. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service and limited information disclosure.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H	6.1	Medium	CWE-476	Denial of service, limited information disclosure
CVE‑2022‑42265	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where an unprivileged regular user can cause integer overflow, which may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	5.3	Medium	CWE‑190	Denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering

NVIDIA vGPU Software

CVE ID	Description	Vector	Base Score	Severity	CWE	Impacts
CVE‑2024‑0077	NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, where it allows a guest OS to allocate resources for which the guest OS is not authorized. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	7.8	High	CWE‑285	Code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering
CVE‑024‑0079	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a user in a guest VM can cause a NULL-pointer dereference in the host. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service.	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	6.5	Medium	CWE‑476	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

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows Driver Branch

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

Windows Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R550, R545, R535	CVE‑2024‑0071, CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2024‑0075,
R470	CVE‑2024‑0071, CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2022‑42265

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Windows Display Driver

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	R550	All driver versions prior to 551.61	551.61
Windows 10 and 11	R470	All driver versions prior to 474.82 for support of GeForce Kepler desktop	474.82
Windows 7 and 8.x	R470	All driver versions prior to 474.89	474.89
Studio	Windows	R550	All driver versions prior to 551.61	551.61
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS	Windows	R550	All driver versions prior to 551.61	551.61
R535	All driver versions prior to 538.33	538.33
R470	All driver versions prior to 474.82	474.82
Tesla	Windows	R550	All driver versions prior to 551.61	551.61
R535	All driver versions prior to 538.33	538.33
R470	All driver versions prior to 474.82	474.82

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux Driver Branch

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

Linux Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R550, R545, R535	CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075
R470	CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE-2022-42265

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Linux Display Driver

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	R550	All driver versions prior to 550.54.14	550.54.14
R535	All driver versions prior to 535.161.07	535.161.07
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.239.06	470.239.06
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS	Linux	R550	All driver versions prior to 550.54.14	550.54.14
R535	All driver versions prior to 535.161.07	535.161.07
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.239.06	470.239.06
Tesla	Linux	R550	All driver versions prior to 550.54.14	550.54.14
R535	All driver versions prior to 535.161.07	535.161.07
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.239.06	470.239.06

Notes

• Your computer hardware vendor may provide you with Windows GPU display driver versions including 552.34, 546.59, 538.18 and 474.80, which also contain the security updates.
• The tables above may not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and may be updated as more information becomes available.
• Earlier software branch releases that support these products may 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
R535	CVE‑2024‑0071, CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0078
R470	CVE‑2024‑0071, CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2022‑42265

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
R535	CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0078
R470	CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2022‑42265

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
R535	CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0077, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2024‑0079
R470	CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0077, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2022‑4226

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.

CVE IDs Addressed	vGPU Software Component	Operating System	Affected Versions	Updated Version
vGPU Software	Driver	vGPU Software	Driver
CVE‑2024‑0071
CVE‑2024‑0073
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2022‑42265	Guest driver	Windows	All versions up to and including 16.3	538.15
All versions up to and including 13.9	474.64	13.10	474.82
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE-2022-42265	Guest driver	Linux	All versions up to and including 16.3	535.154.05
All versions up to and including 13.9	470.223.02	13.10	470.239.06
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0077
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2024‑0079
CVE‑2022‑42265	Virtual GPU Manager	Citrix Hypervisor,
VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM, Ubuntu	All versions up to and including 16.3	535.154.02	16.4	535.161.05
All versions up to and including 13.9	470.223.02	13.10	470.239.01
CVE‑2024‑0073
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0077
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2024‑0079
CVE‑2022‑42265	Virtual GPU Manager	Azure Stack HCI	All versions up to and including 16.3	538.15

Notes:

• The table above may not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and may be updated as more information becomes available.
• Earlier software branch releases that support these products may 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 Cloud Gaming

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows Cloud Gaming Driver Branch

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

Windows Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545	CVE‑2024‑0071, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0078

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux Cloud Gaming Driver Branch

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

Linux Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545	CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0078

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Cloud Gaming Manager Driver Branch

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

Gaming Manager Driver Branch

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CVE IDs Addressed

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R545 | CVE‑2024‑0073, CVE‑2024‑0074, CVE‑2024‑0075, CVE‑2024‑0077, CVE‑2024‑0078, CVE‑2024‑0079

Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions

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

CVE IDs Addressed	Cloud Gaming Component	Operating System	Affected Versions	Updated Version
Cloud Gaming Software	Driver	Cloud Gaming Software	Driver
CVE‑2024‑0071
CVE‑2024‑0073
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2022‑422657	Guest driver	Windows	All versions up to and including the January 2024 release	546.65
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2022‑42265	Guest driver	Linux	All versions up to and including the January 2024 release	545.37.02
CVE‑2024‑0074
CVE‑2024‑0075
CVE‑2024‑0077
CVE‑2024‑0078
CVE‑2024‑0079
CVE‑2022‑42265	Virtual GPU Manager	Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM, VMware vSphere	All versions prior to and including the January 2024 release	545.37.02

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks the following people for reporting the issues:

CVE‑2024‑0071: Piotr Bania - Cisco Talos