Bulletin Summary

NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero’s January 3, 2018 publication of novel information disclosure attacks that combine CPU speculative execution with known side channels.

NVIDIA's core business is GPU computing.

We believe our GPU hardware is immune to the reported security issue. As for our driver software, we are providing updates to help mitigate the CPU security issue.

The vulnerability has three known variants:

Variant 1 (CVE-2017-5753): CPU mitigations are provided with the security update included in this bulletin. NVIDIA expects to work together with its ecosystem partners on future updates to further strengthen mitigations for affected CPUs.

Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715): NVIDIA’s initial analysis indicates that NVIDIA software running on affected CPUs may require further updates. NVIDIA expects to work together with its ecosystem partners on this variant.

Variant 3 (CVE-2017-5754): At this time, NVIDIA has no reason to believe that NVIDIA software is vulnerable to this variant when running on affected CPUs.

For updates and additional information, actively monitor the NVIDIA Product Security page.

https://www.nvidia/product-security

Vulnerability Details

The following sections summarize the vulnerabilities. Descriptions are as published on MITRE and risk assessments follow CVSS.

CVE-2017-5753

Computer systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

CVSS Base Score: 8.2

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

CVE-2017-5715

Computer systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

CVSS Base Score: 8.2

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

CVE-2017-5754

Computer systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache.

CVSS Base Score: 7.9

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration.

Updated Products

Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

When available, download the updates from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page.

/d/file/gt/2023-09/0iiupn132fd.aspx you are an Enterprise Service customer using NVIDIA GRID, visit the NVIDIA Licensing Center to obtain NVIDIA GRID updates.

http://nvidia.flexnetoperations/

If you are an Enterprise Service customer using DGX-1 or DGX Station, visit the NVIDIA Enterprise Portal for guidance.

http://nvidia.flexnetoperations/

Windows

Linux

Notes

The Linux driver contains updates to maintain compatibility with recent Linux updates for this security issue.

If you are using earlier driver branches of the affected products, upgrade to a supported driver branch that contains the udpate as listed in the tables for Windows and Linux.

Acknowledgements

None.

Get the Most Up to Date Product Security Information

To learn more about the vulnerability management process followed by the NVIDIA Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), see the current list of NVIDIA security bulletins, or subscribe to security bulletin notifications, go to NVIDIA Product Security.

Revision History

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How do I know what driver version I have installed?

Launch Windows Device Manager.

Select Display Adapters.

Select the NVIDIA GPU node and right-click.

Go to the Driver tab.

The driver version can be deciphered as shown in the following examples: 10.18.13.6472 is 364.72 and 10.18.13.472 is 304.72

现在，Intel也发布了面向Linux系统的微代码更新补丁，可以在各个Linux发行版上修复所有受影响CPU的漏洞。

支持的操作系统涵盖了近些年的几乎所有流行发行版本：Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4/7.3/7.2/7.1/7.0、Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8/6.7/6.6/6.5/6.4/6.3/6.2、SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12/SP3/SP2/SP1、SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11/SP4/SP3/SP2/SP1、SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12.2、CentOS 7.4/7.3/7.2/7.1/7.0、Debian 8.x/7.x、Fedora 24/23、Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/14.04 LTS。

/d/file/gt/2023-09/zixoif1poeu.html