🛡️ CVE-2024-0078 on Debian — nvidia-graphics-drivers

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-0078 as tracked by Debian, for the package nvidia-graphics-drivers. The fix is available in version 550.144.03-1; 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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, 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:C/C:N/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: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-0078 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-0078 is recorded against 8 packages.

• nvidia-graphics-drivers (fixed in 550.144.03-1)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-418
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-450 (fixed in 450.248.02-4)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-460 (fixed in 460.106.00-3)
• nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 (fixed in 470.239.06-1~deb12u1)
• nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules (fixed in 550.144.03-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 March 2024 and last revised on 4 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-476: NULL Pointer Dereference) in other software:

• CVE-2022-36013 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25670 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25665 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-36000 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-35965 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25660 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25674 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-36014 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)

CVE-2024-0078 on other distributions

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

Details

Affected Packages

References