Use-after-free in NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows (user-mode)
NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows contains a user-mode use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2025-33217) where an attacker can trigger access to heap memory after it has been freed. NVIDIA indicates that successful exploitation may result in code execution and can also enable escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
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A use-after-free vulnerability in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver that can enable arbitrary code execution and local privilege escalation, with additional impacts including data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Use-after-free memory corruption vulnerability in the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows (user-mode layer) that could enable arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, DoS, data tampering, and information disclosure.
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