CVE-2026-24197 Denial of service in GeForce

Medium 6.5 Published 26 May 2026 Updated 27 May 2026

An attacker can cause a hang or data corruption in NVIDIA Linux drivers during MIG partition reconfiguration, leading to denial of service.

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-2026-24197?

CVE-2026-24197 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 26 May 2026. 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 Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partition management, where an insecure default initialization of memory subsystem routing resources could lead to data corruption or a hang during partition reconfiguration. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-1188

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-24197?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Gpu Display Driver.

How do I fix CVE-2026-24197?

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-2026-24197 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-24197 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Nvidia Gpu Display Driver vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-fmw6-8h3h-292c, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-24197.