New drivers for its graphics cards have been announced by NVIDIA, but they are quite peculiar. These new drivers are actually a security update for a certain set of graphics cards. Specifically, they launched NVIDIA GeForce 473.47 WHQL Security Update specifically for graphics cards based on the Kepler architecture.
It is very possible that the identification of these drivers seems strange to you, since we are going to the GeForce 500 and pico drivers. Well, it has an explanation and that is that the GeForce 400 drivers were the last to support these graphics cards. Although NVIDIA no longer releases drivers for Kepler charts
NVIDIA GeForce 473.47 WHQL Security Update for Kepler Graphics
For those who don’t remember, in 2012 the NVIDIA Kepler b Graphics Cardsroasted in the 28nm process. The last drivers released supporting these graphics cards were the GeForce 470s, released last year.
The new GeForce 473.47 WHQL drivers do not provide any performance improvement. These new drivers are released to fix a large number of CVE vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service, information exposure or data manipulation.
Inside these drivers, as we said, there are no bug fixes, new features or performance improvements. have only been corrected CVE vulnerabilities for Kepler noted between 4.1 and 8.5, which would be the most important.
All of these vulnerabilities pose a high risk of code execution, denial of service, elevation of privilege, information exposure, and data manipulation.
The affected graphics cards are:
- GT 600
- GT 700
- GTX600
- GTX700
- Titan
- Black Titan
- Titan Z
We remind you that NVIDIA Kepler will no longer receive full support from 2024. From this date, these types of driver updates that fix a large number of vulnerabilities will no longer be released.
You can download these NVIDIA drivers that fix Kepler graphics vulnerabilities from here.