Nvidia has warned its users about the need to urgently update their graphics card drivers due to eight high-severity vulnerabilities that could compromise their security. This update was available since last October 22.
But many users have not yet installed it, and the company has sent a message to update to the new version as soon as possible. Remember that secure versions are GeForce 566.03 and various versions of drivers series RTX, Quadro y NVS.
Nvidia urges users to update the Nvidia GPU Display Driver as soon as possible. These vulnerabilities affect products such as GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS y Teslaand if not corrected, could allow unauthorized attacks on systems. Attacks that could lead to various security breaches, which could range from mild to extremely serious as:
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- Escalate permissions by a user outside the team.
- Reading out of limits for the computer, saturation, load and device breakage/overload.
Nvidia warns that if not fixed, this could lead to remote code execution, which It would allow data breach and theft, account theft, unlimited access to the device, etc.. The current threat range in updates prior to Nvidia’s most recent is on a scale of 8/10. Considered “high”.
