NVIDIA releases a security update that fixes five serious vulnerabilities in Windows

Security update by NVIDIA, which fixes five serious vulnerabilities that affect everyone who uses Windows operating system.

In recent years we are seeing many vulnerabilities appear, not only in processors, but in software. Research in the search for possible vulnerabilities has increased greatly. It is for this reason that NVIDIA has released a security update for its Windows drivers. Five fairly serious vulnerabilities have been found and fixed as soon as possible.

These five vulnerabilities are classified as high and medium severity. These vulnerabilities would allow arbitrary code to be executed on our system. It will allow an attacker to modify his privileges and increase them, thus controlling the system. Through this update in NVIDIA drivers, these vulnerabilities are fixed.

NVIDIA updates its drivers to correct vulnerabilities

It should be noted that the security flaw cannot be exploited remotely by the attacker. In order to take control, the user needs to take a previous action. If this were the case, the attacker could modify the privileges once inside the system. Even the attacker could perform a denial of service attack on systems with vulnerable Windows distributions.

All users must download this latest update, available since yesterday, to protect against attacks. Those who use graphs GeForce, Quadro, NVS and Tesla with Windows operating system must update mandatory. To do this, they must go to the NVIDIA page where the drivers are downloaded.

The most important vulnerability is in the element that records the trace of the GPU display user mode video driver in Windows. Another of the most serious vulnerabilities has to do with DirectX drivers.

All these vulnerabilities affect Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 operating systems, so it is quite broad. Anyone who has an NVIDIA graphics with one of these operating systems should update as soon as possible.