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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2025-33221 EUVD-2025-209936GHSA-mc8c-mh26-q8q7

NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission…

Published May 26, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by nvidia

Vendor: NVIDIA Product: GeForce Product: Guest driver Product: NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS Product: Tesla Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-460-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-510 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-515 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-515-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-520 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-530 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-535-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-545 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-550 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-550-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-560 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-565-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-570 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-570-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-575 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-575-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-580-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-590 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-590-server Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-595 Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-595-server Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission assignment for a critical resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to data tampering and denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected. —
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53, All driver versions prior to 539.72 —
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53, All driver versions prior to 539.72 —
NVIDIA Guest driver 595.58.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0), 580.126.09(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4), 535.288.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13), 595.58.03(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release), 595.97(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0),… —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 nvidia-graphics-drivers-570 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-550 +6 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 +1 580.159.03-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-595 +1 595.71.05-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 nvidia-graphics-drivers-550 +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 +1 580.159.03-0ubuntu0.25.10.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 nvidia-graphics-drivers-595 +1 595.71.05-0ubuntu0.25.10.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 +1 535.309.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 +1 580.159.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-595 +1 595.71.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 +24 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 +1 535.309.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 +1 580.159.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-595 +1 595.71.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 +17 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 +15 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 +6 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 +2 No fix yet —

Advisories 1

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