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Nvidia Affected By Recent Vulnerabilities
« on: January 07, 2018, 01:44:00 AM »
By now, you've probably heard of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affect CPUs, and patched Windows. The bad news is that Nvidia has announced that their GPUs (the main chips in graphics cards) are affected by at least one of these vulnerabilities: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4611 A new driver to fix the vulnerabilities will be released next week. Watch for it and install it.
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Re: Nvidia Affected By Recent Vulnerabilities
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2018, 04:19:14 PM »
The driver's out, get it here: https://www.geforce.com/drivers
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Re: Nvidia Affected By Recent Vulnerabilities
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2018, 02:39:49 PM »
Is this worth doing? Is a GPU cache likely to contain anything sensitive in day-to-day use. My system is pretty slow these days. I have the OS update though, that's pretty important.
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Re: Nvidia Affected By Recent Vulnerabilities
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2018, 03:12:55 PM »
Yes, I think it's worth doing, just to be safe. I've already done it.
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Re: Nvidia Affected By Recent Vulnerabilities
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2018, 11:26:43 AM »
The thing the meltdown and spectre attacks are both about is the end goal of both attacks to gain access to the memory (RAM)

The GPU has direct access to the RAM, The GPU also is more or less a processor, henche both working on the GPU aswell, so yes, it is seriously adviced to do this.

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