Security News > 2021 > January > Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of High-Severity Graphics Driver Flaws

In all, Nvidia patched flaws tied to 16 CVEs across its graphics drivers and vGPU software, in its first security update of 2021.

Nvidia, which makes gaming-friendly graphics processing units, on Thursday fixed a slew of high-severity flaws affecting its graphics driver.

Nvidia also stomped out four medium-severity flaws in its graphics driver.

Beyond its graphics drivers, Nvidia warned of flaws tied to nine high-severity CVEs in its virtual GPU software.

Many of the flaws addressed in Nvidia's Thursday security advisory stem from Nvidia's vGPU manager, its tool that enables multiple virtual machines to have simultaneous, direct access to a single physical GPU, while also using Nvidia graphics drivers deployed on non-virtualized operating systems.

In another Nvidia vGPU plugin issue, input data is not validated, which may lead to tampering of data or DoS. Various Nvidia GeForce Windows and Linux driver branches are affected; Nvidia has released a full list of affected versions and updated driver versions on its security advisory.

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