CVE-2021-1056: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko) in which it does not completely honor operating system file system permissions to provide GPU device-level isolation, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• NVIDIA GPU Driver: from 390, before 390.141 (fixed in 390.141); from 450, before 450.102.04 (fixed in 450.102.04); from 460, before 460.32.03 (fixed in 460.32.03)

Published 2021-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.