Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - October 2023

NVIDIA has released a software security update for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver to address the issues that are disclosed in this bulletin.

To protect your system, download and install this software update through the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page or, for the vGPU software and Cloud Gaming updates, through the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

Go to NVIDIA Product Security.

Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE ID	Description	Base Score	CWE and Vector
CVE‑2023‑31027	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability that allows Windows users with low levels of privilege to escalate privileges when an administrator is updating GPU drivers, which may lead to escalation of privileges.	8.2	CWE-427
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31019	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in wksServicePlugin.dll, where the driver implementation does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access from the named pipe server to a connecting client, which may lead to potential impersonation to the client’s secure context.	7.8	CWE-284
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31017	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker may be able to write arbitrary data to privileged locations by using reparse points. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering.	7.8	CWE: 552
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31016	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an uncontrolled search path element may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering.	7.3	CWE-427
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31020	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause improper access control, which may lead to denial of service or data tampering.	6.1	CWE-284
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31022	NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where a NULL-pointer dereference may lead to denial of service.	5.5	CWE: 476
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31023	NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause a pointer dereference of an untrusted value, which may lead to denial of service.	5.5	CWE: 822
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVIDIA vGPU Software

CVE ID	Description	Base Score	CWE and Vector
CVE‑2023‑31018	NVIDIA GPU Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause a NULL-pointer dereference, which may lead to denial of service.	6.5	CWE: 476
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31026	NVIDIA vGPU software for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where a NULL-pointer dereference may lead to denial of service.	6.0	CWE: 476
AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE‑2023‑31021	NVIDIA vGPU software for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where a malicious user in the guest VM can cause a NULL-pointer dereference, which may lead to denial of service.	5.5	CWE: 476
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Windows driver branch.

Windows Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545, R535, R525	CVE‑2023‑31016, CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027
R470	CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Windows Display Driver

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Windows driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Software Product	Operating System	Driver Branch	**Affected Driver Versions **	** Updated Driver Version **
GeForce	Windows	R545	All driver versions prior to 546.01	546.01
Windows 10 and 11	R470	All driver versions prior to 474.64 for support of GeForce Kepler desktop	474.64
Windows 7 and 8.x	R470	All driver versions prior to 474.64	474.64
Studio	Windows	R545	All driver versions prior to 546.01	546.01
NVIDIA RTX,
Quadro,
NVS	Windows	R545	All driver versions prior to 546.01	546.01
R535	All driver versions prior to 537.70	537.70
R525	All driver versions prior to 529.19	529.19
R470	All driver versions prior to 474.64	474.64
Tesla	Windows	R535	All driver versions prior to 537.70	537.70
R525	All driver versions prior to 529.19	529.19
R470	All driver versions prior to 474.64	474.64

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Linux driver branch.

Linux Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545, R535, R525, R470	CVE‑2023‑31022

Security Updates for NVIDIA GPU Linux Display Driver

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, Linux driver versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update. Download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

Software Product	Operating System	Driver Branch	**Affected Driver Versions **	Updated Driver Version
GeForce	Linux	R545	All driver versions prior to 545.29.02	545.29.02
R535	All driver versions prior to 535.129.03	535.129.03
R525	All driver versions prior to 525.147.05	525.147.05
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.223.02	470.223.02
NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS	Linux	R545	All driver versions prior to 545.29.02	545.29.02
R535	All driver versions prior to 535.129.03	535.129.03
R525	All driver versions prior to 525.147.05	525.147.05
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.223.02	470.223.02
Tesla	Linux	R535	All driver versions prior to 535.129.03	535.129.03
R525	All driver versions prior to 525.147.05	525.147.05
R470	All driver versions prior to 470.223.02	470.223.02

Notes

• Your computer hardware vendor may provide you with Windows GPU display driver versions including 545.91, 537.70, 529.19 and 474.64, which also contain the security updates.
• The tables above may not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and may be updated as more information becomes available.
• Earlier software branch releases that support these products may also be affected. If you are using an earlier branch release for which an update version is not listed above, we recommend upgrading to the latest branch release.

Security Updates for NVIDIA vGPU Software

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows vGPU Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Windows vGPU driver branch.

Windows Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R535	CVE‑2023‑31016, CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31021, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027
R525	CVE‑2023‑31016, CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027
R470	CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux vGPU Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Linux vGPU driver branch.

Linux Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R535, R525, R470	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022

CVE IDs Addressed in Each vGPU Manager Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each vGPU Manager driver branch.

vGPU Manager Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R535	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31021, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31026
R525	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31026
R470	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022

Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions

The following table lists NVIDIA vGPU software components affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

CVE IDs Addressed	vGPU Software Component	Operating System	Affected Versions	Updated Version
vGPU Software	Driver	vGPU Software	Driver
CVE‑2023‑31016
CVE‑2023‑31017
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31019
CVE‑2023‑31020
CVE‑2023‑31022
CVE‑2023‑31023
CVE‑2023‑31027	Guest driver	Windows	All versions prior to and including 16.1	537.13
All versions prior to and including 15.3	529.11	15.4	529.19
All versions prior to and including 13.8	474.44	13.9	474.64
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31022	Guest driver	Linux	All versions prior to and including 16.1	535.104.05
All versions prior to and including 15.3	525.125.06	15.4	525.147.05
All versions prior to and including 13.8	470.199.02	13.9	470.223.02
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31021
CVE‑2023‑31022
CVE‑2023‑31026	Virtual GPU Manager

Citrix Hypervisor,
VMware vSphere,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM,

Ubuntu

| All versions prior to and including 16.1 | 535.104.06 | 16.2 | 535.109.03
All versions prior to and including 15.3 | 525.125.03 | 15.4 | 525.147.01
All versions prior to and including 13.8 | 470.199.03 | 13.9 | 470.223.02
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31021
CVE‑2023‑31022 | Virtual GPU Manager | Azure Stack HCI | All versions prior to and including 16.1 | 537.13 | 16.2 | 537.70
All versions prior to and including 15.3 | 529.06 | 15.4 | 529.19

Notes

• The table above may not be a comprehensive list of all affected supported versions or branch releases and may be updated as more information becomes available.
• Earlier software branch releases that support these products may also be affected. If you are using an earlier branch release for which an update version is not listed above, we recommend upgrading to the latest branch release.

Security Updates for NVIDIA Cloud Gaming

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Windows Cloud Gaming Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Windows Cloud Gaming driver branch.

Windows Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545, R535	CVE‑2023‑31016, CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31021, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027
R525	CVE‑2023‑31016, CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027
R470	CVE‑2023‑31017, CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31019, CVE‑2023‑31020, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31023, CVE‑2023‑31027

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Linux Cloud Gaming Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Linux Cloud Gaming driver branch

Linux Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545, R535, R525, R470	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022

CVE IDs Addressed in Each Cloud Gaming Manager Driver Branch

The following table lists the CVE IDs addressed by the update in each Cloud Gaming Manager driver branch

Gaming Manager Driver Branch	CVE IDs Addressed
R545, R535	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31021, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31026
R525	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022, CVE‑2023‑31026
R470	CVE‑2023‑31018, CVE‑2023‑31022

Affected Components, Affected Versions, and Updated Versions

The following table lists the NVIDIA software products affected, versions affected, and the updated version that includes this security update.

CVE IDs Addressed	Cloud Gaming Component	Operating System	Affected Versions	** Updated Version **
Cloud Gaming Software	Driver	** Cloud Gaming Software**	Driver
CVE‑2023‑31016
CVE‑2023‑31017
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31019
CVE‑2023‑31020
CVE‑2023‑31022
CVE‑2023‑31023
CVE‑2023‑31027	Guest driver	Windows	All versions prior to and including September 2023 release	537.42
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31022	Guest driver	Linux	All versions prior to and including September 2023 release	535.113.01
CVE‑2023‑31018
CVE‑2023‑31021
CVE‑2023‑31022
CVE‑2023‑31026	Virtual GPU Manager

Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM,

VMware vSphere

| All versions prior to and including September 2023 release | 535.113.01 | October 2023 release | 545.29.02

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks the following people for reporting the issues to us:

CVE‑2023‑31027: Patryk Nowakowski

CVE‑2023‑31017: Lockheed Martin Red Team