With this week's R460 driver release also comes a number of security updates. Several security issues have been patched in both the NVIDIA Windows and Linux graphics driver components.

The set of 2021 CVEs " addresses issues that may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, data tampering, or information disclosure. "

Among the vulnerabilities are a kernel ioctl through which user-mode clients can access legacy privileged APIs, the kernel driver not completely honoring file-system permissions for GPU device-level isolation, and several more vGPU software vulnerabilities.

The Linux driver vulnerabilities have been fixed in 460.32.03 / 450.102.04 while a legacy Linux driver update is also expected in about one week to fix the issues there.

More details on these NVIDIA graphics driver vulnerabilities via the NVIDIA help section .