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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-23300 json

NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause a null pointer dereference by alloc…

published 2025-10-23 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also EUVD-2025-35721

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause a null pointer dereference by allocating a specific memory resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • nvidia virtual_gpu_manager 16.12, 18.5, 19.2
  • nvidia geforce 535.274.02, 570.195.03, 580.95.05
  • nvidia gpu_driver 535.274.02, 570.195.03, 580.95.05
  • nvidia tesla 535.274.02, 570.195.03, 580.95.05
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers Debian 12 535.309.01-0+deb12u1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla Debian 12 525.147.05-6
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-535 Debian 13 535.274.02-1~deb13u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23300

  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 535.274.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 535.274.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-570 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 570.195.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-570 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 570.195.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 580.95.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 580.95.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 Ubuntu 25.10 580.95.05-0ubuntu1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 580.95.05-0ubuntu4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23300

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-23300 updated cvss 7.8

nvidia-display-driver: NVIDIA Display Driver Null pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) rhelai1/bootc-aws-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-gcp-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-azure-nvidia-rhel9, rhelai1/instructlab-nvidia-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
12 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
  • NVIDIA GeForce
  • NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS
  • NVIDIA Tesla
  • NVIDIA Guest driver

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.