If you have an Nvidia graphics card in your system, whether for work or recreation, and you're using a Windows operating system, you'll want to update your drivers because the 431.68 driver fixes some glaring security issues. .
Nvidia GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla graphics cards are affected by five dangerous security vulnerabilities, which can potentially allow attackers to execute local code, denial of service, or increase privileges. Nvidia has listed these vulnerabilities, as well as the CVSS V3 baseline score, which measures their severity. These scores range from 5.2 to 8.8.
It is obvious that all of these attacks can be very dangerous, but luckily, a driver update will correct the security breach, according to the Nvidia security bulletin.
The good news is that you need local access to take advantage of this feat. Therefore, widespread attacks are unlikely to occur. However, if you are an office designer, it would be wise to update your drivers as soon as possible to protect your machine.
Fortunately, even if you don't fix this vulnerability manually, hardware manufacturers should automatically issue a patch through Windows Update, according to Bleeping Computer.
So our advice: update your drivers as soon as possible. The fact that attackers need local access may mitigate the threat for some people, but there are still serious security loopholes that can have disastrous effects if exploited.
Via TechPowerUp