This article reviews nine vulnerabilities Palo Alto researchers recently discovered in two utilities called cuobjdump and nvdisasm, both from NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) Toolkit.
The researchers have coordinated with NVIDIA, and the company has released an update in February 2025 to address these issues. The vulnerabilities are tracked as the following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs):
- CVE-2024-53870
- CVE-2024-53871
- CVE-2024-53872
- CVE-2024-53873
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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42
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