By Cale Hunt
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 21:04:00
NVIDIA’s Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta series GPUs no longer receive Game Ready Driver updates as of last year, but that doesn’t mean they’re being entirely ignored by the company. That’s good news since a lot of these cards are still faithfully serving PC gamers and developers.
On January 28, 2026, NVIDIA released a security-focused driver update (version 582.28 WQHL) for its legacy cards with a focus on eliminating five vulnerabilities. The driver release notes oddly don’t list the vulnerabilities it fixes, but you can read, in detail, on NVIDIA’s Security Bulletin page.
- CVE-2025-33217: NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker could trigger a use after free. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
- CVE-2025-33218: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys), where an attacker could cause an integer overflow. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, or information disclosure.
- CVE-2025-33219: NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel module where an attacker could cause an integer overflow or wraparound. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation…
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