Security News > 2021 > January > NVIDIA Ships Patches for High-Severity Security Flaws
A total of six security flaws were patched in the NVIDIA GPU display driver, all of them affecting the kernel mode layer.
Also leading to denial of service are the next two flaws addressed with this set of patches, namely CVE‑2021‑1053 and CVE‑2021‑1054, NVIDIA explains in an advisory.
Nine of the ten vulnerabilities addressed in NVIDIA vGPU software with this set of patches features a CVSS score of 7.8.
Affecting the guest kernel mode driver and the vGPU plugin of the NVIDIA vGPU software, two of the flaws could lead to tampering of data or denial of service.
The remaining issues impact the vGPU plugin of the NVIDIA vGPU manager and could lead to integrity and confidentiality loss, tampering of data, denial of service, or information disclosure.
NVIDIA released patches to address these vulnerabilities in GeForce, NVIDIA RTX/Quadro, and NVS display drivers for Windows and Linux, as well as Tesla drivers for Windows.