🛡️ CVE-2023-0185 on Debian — nvidia-graphics-drivers

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-0185 as tracked by Debian, for the package nvidia-graphics-drivers. The fix is available in version 525.105.17-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0185 is classified as CWE-196: Unsigned to Signed Conversion Error. The product uses an unsigned primitive and performs a cast to a signed primitive, which can produce an unexpected value if the value of the unsigned primitive can not be represented using a signed primitive.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0185 is recorded against 8 packages.

• nvidia-graphics-drivers (fixed in 525.105.17-1)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla (fixed in 525.105.17-1)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-418
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-450 (fixed in 450.236.01-1~deb11u1)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-460 (fixed in 460.106.00-3)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 (fixed in 470.182.03-1)
• nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules (fixed in 525.105.17-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 April 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

nvidia-graphics-drivers has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• ECHO-8752-7f5c-2930 (published 31 Jan 2026)
• DEBIAN-CVE-2025-33219 (published 28 Jan 2026)
• ECHO-31fb-6654-d989 (published 18 Dec 2025)
• ECHO-18b5-582e-57d8 (published 18 Dec 2025)
• ECHO-eeb5-3e3e-2d50 (published 18 Dec 2025)
• ECHO-142b-555d-bea7 (published 18 Dec 2025)
• ECHO-e9c4-fb81-4a6a (published 18 Dec 2025)
• ECHO-03ce-ef79-5d82 (published 18 Dec 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-196: Unsigned to Signed Conversion Error) in other software:

• CVE-2026-58317 (6.3 Medium, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14454 (9.8 Critical, published 8 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-34155 (5.3 Medium, published 31 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2023-0185 (6.7 Medium, published 1 Apr 2023)
• CVE-2022-36025 (9.5 Critical, published 24 Sep 2022)

CVE-2023-0185 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Affected Packages

References