NVIDIA's newest update for its GeForce GPU drivers focuses on mitigating multiple security risks that are deemed "critical" ones, leading to issues like denial of service and many more.

NVIDIA's newest GPU display driver, v591.59, has brought in multiple security updates that are important for current GPU users to look towards, as according to the manufacturer's , the latest security update has dealt with almost four different flaws, which have a severity rating of "High". According to NVIDIA's description of these security issues, these vulnerabilities target multiple operating systems and could allow attackers to compromise user devices, leading to "code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure."

Team Green claims that the products affected by these security issues are all from the GeForce, GeForce RTX, Quadro, NVS, and Tesla lineups, which together account for a large portion of consumers. If you are looking to know which driver versions to have onboard to address these security flaws, we recommend going through this list to identify the specific versions.

It is highly recommended to switch to the above driver versions whenever possible to ensure that security flaws listed by NVIDIA don't affect your systems. And more importantly, since a majority of these risks are on a 'critical-risk' level, posing a major threat. In , NVIDIA has also addressed flaws in older GeForce GPUs from the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta lineups. Since these are rather outdated models, you might need to install the security update yourself.

NVIDIA has released a software security update display driver for Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal-series GeForce GPUs which are no longer supported by Game Ready Drivers. This update addresses multiple issues that may lead to security impacts.

- NVIDIA

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