Nvidia Patches Security Vulnerability in GeForce Experience

GPUs Mar 27,2019 0

NVIDIA has released a software security update for the GeForce Experience to address an issue that may lead to code execution, denial of service, or escalation of privileges.

o protect your system, download and install this software update through the GeForce Experience.

The security flaw was originally discovered and reported by David Yesland of Rhino Security Labs.

The bug is present in Nvidia GeForce Experience versions prior to 3.18 on the Microsoft Windows operating system. The specific software versions
contain a vulnerability when ShadowPlay, NvContainer, or GameStream is enabled. When opening a file, the software does not check for hard links. This behavior may lead to code execution, denial of service, or escalation of privileges.

0 Comments

Your name

Comment *

More information about text formats

Text format

Filtered HTML

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Plain text

No HTML tags allowed.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

BBCode

No HTML tags allowed.
You may use these tags: [abbr], [acronym], [b], [center], [code], [color], [define], [font], [h1], [h2], [h3], [h4], [h5], [h6], [hr], [i], [img], [justify], [left], [list], [node], [php], [quote], [right], [s], [size], [sub], [sup], [u], [url], [wikipedia], [youtube], [align], [link], [ol], [ul]
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.