CVE-2025-23281
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Publication date: 2025-08-02
Last updated on: 2025-08-04
Assigner: NVIDIA Corporation
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| nvidia | gpu_display_driver | 3.1 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-416 | The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability exists in the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows. It involves a race condition that an attacker with local unprivileged access might exploit to trigger a use-after-free error. This means that the attacker could potentially cause the system to use memory that has already been freed, leading to unexpected behavior.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, escalate their privileges, tamper with data, cause denial of service, or disclose sensitive information on the affected system.