NVIDIA Drivers: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202405-28

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.

Affected packages

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers on all architectures
Affected versions < 470.223.02
< 525.147.05
< 535.129.03
Unaffected versions >= 470.223.02
>= 525.147.05
>= 535.129.03

Background

NVIDIA Drivers are NVIDIA's accelerated graphics driver.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NVIDIA Drivers. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NVIDIA Drivers 470 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.223.02:0/470"
 

All NVIDIA Drivers 525 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-525.147.05:0/525"
 

All NVIDIA Drivers 535 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-535.129.03:0/535"
 

References

Release date
May 08, 2024

Latest revision
May 08, 2024: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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