CVE-2024-0131 Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, vGPU software
A user-mode attacker can cause a denial of service by reading a buffer with an incorrect length in the NVIDIA GPU kernel driver.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-0131?
CVE-2024-0131 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, vGPU software, published on 2 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
NVIDIA GPU kernel driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where a potential user-mode attacker could read a buffer with an incorrect length. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-805
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0131?
How do I fix CVE-2024-0131?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-0131 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0131 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-0131, GHSA-5x4m-c6g6-r2qq, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0131.