Posted May 20, 2026 at 4:55 PM UTCRExternal LinkNvidia says some of its old drivers have “high severity” security vulnerabilities.A security bulletin from Nvidia breaks down new vulnerabilities found in some of its GPU drivers for Windows and Linux and vGPU software. As Digital Foundry and Club386 point out, they affect drivers prior to 596.36 on the current branch, so if you’re running the most recently released update (596.49, which was released on May 12th), you don’t have anything to do.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Richard Lawler
Nvidia says some of its old drivers have “high severity” security vulnerabilities.
A security bulletin from Nvidia breaks down new vulnerabilities found in some of its GPU drivers for Windows and Linux and vGPU software. As Digital Foundry and Club386 point out, they affect drivers prior to 596.36 on the current branch, so if you’re running the most recently released update (596.49, which was released on May 12th), you don’t have anything to do. [Link: Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Drivers - May 2026 | https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5821 | Nvidia]
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