NVIDIA GeForce/RTX/Quadro/NVS/Tesla/Guest driver on Linux Display Driver out-of-bounds
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in NVIDIA GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS, Tesla and Guest driver on Linux. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Display Driver. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-24196. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS, Tesla and Guest driver on Linux and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Display Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service and information disclosure.
The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-24196 since 01/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
Type
Vendor
Name
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.nvidia.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
VulDB Vector: 🔒VulDB Reliability: 🔍
CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍
CNA Base Score: 7.1
CNA Vector (nvidia): 🔒
CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Out-of-boundsCWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
CAPEC: 🔒
ATT&CK: 🔒
Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
Interest: 🔍Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔒
Timeline
01/21/2026 CVE reserved05/26/2026 Advisory disclosed
05/26/2026 VulDB entry created
05/26/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: nvidia.comStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2026-24196 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-24196
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-365765
Entry
Created: 05/26/2026 21:32Changes: 05/26/2026 21:32 (62)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103
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