CVE-2025-23300 Null dereference in GeForce
A local user can cause a denial of service in the NVIDIA Linux kernel driver via a null pointer dereference.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-23300?
CVE-2025-23300 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA GeForce, published on 23 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23300?
How do I fix CVE-2025-23300?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-23300 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23300 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23300, ECHO-a7ae-5c99-a330, GHSA-3vrr-h3vm-h333, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23300.