By Darren Allan
The Meltdown and Spectre bugs caused some considerable panic as the New Year kicked off, and prepare yourself for another dollop of concern now, because the security flaws don’t just affect processors – given that Nvidia has just implemented patches for the vulnerabilities in its latest set of graphics drivers.
As ZDNet spotted, Nvidia noted that it wasn’t affected by Meltdown (which is specific to Intel’s processors), but that its GPUs were affected by the far more wide-ranging and problematic Spectre. The company issued a security bulletin stating that it is providing an “initial security update to mitigate aspects” of the latter. Further updates will follow.
This applies to consumer GeForce graphics cards, as well as Nvidia’s heavyweight GPU products such as Quadro and Tesla.
The updated and patched drivers for GeForce graphics cards, as well as Quadro and NVS GPUs, running on Windows and Linux are available now – you want to install version 390.65 for Windows – with Tesla and Grid driver updates to follow before January is out.
Patch pronto
While more cautious PC users might normally wait to let GPU drivers ‘bed in’ for a little while before installing them – we know we …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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