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NVIDIA security bulletin for January 2026 reveals new GPU driver security issues

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Last updated: 28 Jan 2026 at 7:03 pm UTC

NVIDIA today made public a fresh security bulletin to detail some more security issues discovered in the GPU drivers - here's the details.

Only one of them (CVE-2025-33219) affects desktop Linux this time, with the other two affecting Windows. NVIDIA previously announced more issues back in October 2025.

Here's the single issue noted that affects Linux users:

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE-2025-33219 NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel module where an attacker could cause an integer overflow or wraparound. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, or information disclosure. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.8 High CWE-190 Code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, information disclosure

To be sure you're secure you need to be on one of these driver versions at a minimum: 590.48.01, 580.126.09, 570.211.01, 535.288.01. All prior versions in each series are vulnerable, so you should look to update as soon as your distributions allows.

Source: NVIDIA

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