NVIDIA Linux Display Driver Race Condition PrivEsc
CVE-2025-23282 Published on October 10, 2025
NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker might be able to use a race condition to escalate privileges. 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-2025-23282 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 Double-free Vulnerability?
The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations. When a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures become corrupted. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
CVE-2025-23282 has been classified to as a Double-free vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-23282
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager:- Version 580.82.02(All versions up to and including the August 2025 release) is affected.
- Version 580.82.02(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.1) is affected.
- Version 570.172.07(All versions prior to and including vGPU 18.4) is affected.
- Version 535.261.04(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.11) 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 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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