NVIDIA GPU Display Driver CVE-2026-24198

Upgrade the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux to version 580.159.03 or 595.71.05 (or later within the respective branch), as detailed in the NVIDIA security advisory at https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5821. The patch is vendor-confirmed available. Administrators on SUSE-based distributions should check for distribution-provided updated driver packages that bundle the fix rather than installing drivers directly from NVIDIA. If immediate patching is not operationally feasible, restrict access to GPU-equipped Linux systems so that only explicitly trusted, high-privilege service accounts interact with the driver; since exploitation requires local high-privilege access, eliminating untrusted privileged users from affected hosts removes the viable attacker population. Additionally, auditing sudoers and GPU-accessible user groups to enforce least-privilege reduces the attack surface without impacting GPU workloads. Note that GPU driver updates may require a system or service restart, which should be planned as a maintenance window for production GPU workloads.