Use-After-Free in NVIDIA Display Driver (Linux) Enables Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-23280 Published on October 10, 2025
NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a use-after-free. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-23280 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.
CVE-2025-23280 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-23280
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GeForce:- Version All driver versions prior to 580.95.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 570.195.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.274.02 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.95.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 570.195.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.274.02 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.95.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 570.195.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.274.02 is affected.
- Version 580.82.07(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.1) is affected.
- Version 580.82.07(All versions up to and including the August 2025 release) is affected.
- Version 570.172.08(All versions prior to and including vGPU 18.4) is affected.
- Version 535.261.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.11) is affected.
Exploit Probability
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