CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-24197 — Nvidia Gpu Display Driver security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

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.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-05-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-1188

Affected products

  • nvidia / gpu_display_driver

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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