Please give me more info, and Iām not using 550:
pro fix CVE-2021-1056
CVE-2021-1056: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-1056
No affected source packages are installed.
ā CVE-2021-1056 does not affect your system.
apt policy nvidia-driver*|grep Installed
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Installed: 570.133.07-0ubuntu2
Please give me a link to the CVE in question.
Thanks And Welcome to the forums @ marrol777
I found this new CVE and it is being looked at currently:
pro fix CVE-2025-23244
CVE-2025-23244:
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could
allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful
exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of
service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data
tampering.
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-23244
1 affected source package is installed: nvidia-graphics-drivers-570
(1/1) nvidia-graphics-drivers-570:
Ubuntu security engineers are investigating this issue.
1 package is still affected: nvidia-graphics-drivers-570
ā CVE-2025-23244 is not resolved.
@1fallen - yes this is the new CVE-2025-23244 which affects both 550 and 570.
In January both driver-series were affected by these CVEs mentioned here. I am using 550.120 on Noble, not Plucky.
Compare with what I wrote yesterday.
But see, the server drivers are already fixed with 550.163.01! Should I wait for 550.163.01 for desktop or can I switch somehow to the server variant? Update to 550.144.03 makes no sense.
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-modules-nvidia-570-open-6.14.0-15-generic
linux-modules-nvidia-570-open-generic
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@ogra Thanks for this info that the nvidia driver on server is optimized for AI processing. Since the desktop linux kernel switched from 6.8 to 6.11 Iāve used the server linux kernel.
$ uname -a
Linux ZBookRoland 6.8.0-58-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 14 18:29:48 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
550.144.03 for āUbuntu Nobleā was in fact released just a few hours ago:
So I keep on waiting for the desktop nvidia driver update 550.163.01. After its release I will have to switch back to the desktop linux kernel 6.11, right?
And that means also update the VMware Workstation. Sadly, will check if their dkms now supports the 6.11 kernel series.
Iām not suggesting this for a stable environment, but the PPA driver is currently ok.
pro fix CVE-2025-23244
CVE-2025-23244:
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could
allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful
exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of
service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data
tampering.
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-23244
No affected source packages are installed.
ā CVE-2025-23244 does not affect your system.
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uaclient/apt.py:340: Warning: W:Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources - open (13: Permission denied), W:Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/surfshark.sources - open (13: Permission denied)
dep_cache = apt_pkg.DepCache(cache)
Also Iām testing 575 currently:
nvidia-smi
Thu May 1 11:02:39 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.51.02 Driver Version: 575.51.02 CUDA Version: 12.9 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 32C P8 3W / 60W | 15MiB / 4096MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 4802 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
After asking also in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu I finally switched back to the kernel linux-generic-hwe-24.04 and installed the nvidia-driver-570:
$ uname -a
Linux ZBookRoland 6.11.0-25-generic #25~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Apr 15 17:20:50 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07 Driver Version: 570.133.07 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA RTX A1000 6GB Lap... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 52C P0 312W / 50W | 14MiB / 6144MiB | 8% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
VMware Workstation also works fine.
But I still donāt understand why the version 550.163.01 for the Ubuntu desktop is marked as new where this bug fix for the Ubuntu server version is already released.
