Nvidia Warns: Severe Security Bugs in GPU Driver, vGPU Software

Nvidia has disclosed a group of security vulnerabilities in the Nvidia graphics processing unit GPU display driver, which could subject gamers and others to privilege-escalation attacks, arbitrary code execution, denial of service DoS and information disclosure. Meanwhile, the Nvidia virtual GPU...

CVE-2021-1078

CVE-2021-1078 affects NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows (nvlddmkm.sys). The kernel-mode vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in the driver that may cause a system crash on affected Windows driver branches. The vulnerability is listed in NVIDIA’s security updates as addressed in...