CVE-2026-24182

NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could leak held driver locks. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

Affected Software

Extended Description

Locking is a type of synchronization behavior that ensures that multiple independently-operating processes or threads do not interfere with each other when accessing the same resource. All processes/threads are expected to follow the same steps for locking. If these steps are not followed precisely - or if no locking is done at all - then another process/thread could modify the shared resource in a way that is not visible or predictable to the original process. This can lead to data or memory corruption, denial of service, etc.

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/25.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/26.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/27.html

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24182
• https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5821
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24182